Quotes by William Adams - Page 1

Faith is a continuation of reason.
William Adams / Sailor
Faith
Continuation
Reason
Faith Reason
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So I departed and was free from imprisonment.
William Adams / Sailor
Departed
Imprisonment
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So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
William Adams / Sailor
Emperor
Divers
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From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
William Adams / Sailor
All Things
Clothes
Ships
Taken
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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 children according to conscience and nature.
William Adams / Sailor
Conscience
According
Desiring
In The End
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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 six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
William Adams / Sailor
Feet
Gnarly
Japan
Twenty Two
Two
Besides
Cape
Maria
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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 no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
William Adams / Sailor
Able
Harm
People
Understanding
Time People Understanding
Boats
Suffered
Neither
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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 was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
William Adams / Sailor
Captains
Done
Emperor
Ships
Unknown
Captain
Carried
Generally
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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 things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
William Adams / Sailor
Contrary
Grace
Understanding
Favor
Pleased
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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 out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
William Adams / Sailor
Pretense
Cruel
Failed
Praised
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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 known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
William Adams / Sailor
Jesus
Christ
Conscience
Fatherless
Grief
Japan
Jesus Christ
Pray
Widow
Manner
Therefore
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