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John Jortin
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John Jortin (23 October 1698 – 5 September 1770) was an English church historian.
Quotes
Palmam qui meruit, ferat.
Let him who has won it bear the palm.
Lusus Poetici, 3rd ed. (London, 1748), "Ad Ventos", p. 22. This was a motto of Lord Nelson. Reported in D. E. Macdonnel, ed., A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations (Philadelphia, 1824), p. 209
The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.
Sermons on Different Subjects, vol. 1 (London: Benjamin White, 1771), sermon 1, p. 12. Sermon dated 1751 in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practial Quotations (1922), p. 766
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