William Adams Quotes
- At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us…
- Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking…
- From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
- So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than…
- Faith is a continuation of reason.
- In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and…
- If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were…
- Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other…
- So I departed and was free from imprisonment.
- So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
- Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan…
- Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.