Without putting on spectacles (which, blessed be God, I do not wear) I can read a little Latin still.
The Rev. John Wesley, In Freeman's Journal, 1780
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I can face the north wind at seventy-seven better than I could at seven and twenty.
Letter to Samuel Bradburn, 1781
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This is the last day of my seventy-eighth year; and (such is the power of God) I feel as if it were my twenty-eighth.
Letter to Charles Wesley, 1781
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