A momentious prayer as wuz ever riz up on earth.
But the stun walls didn't give no heed to it, and I dare say that Alonzo and the rest wuz sick a-waitin' for him, and wanted to cut it short.
Yes, Columbus must have had emotions in this convent as hefty and as soarin' as they make, and truly they must have been immense to gone ahead of mine, as I stood there and thought on him, what he had done and what he had suffered.
Why, I had more'n a hundred and twenty-five or thirty a minute right along, and I don't know but more.
When I see them relics of that noble creeter, paper that he had had his own hand on, that his own eyes had looked at, his own brain had dictated, every one of 'em full of the ardentcy and earnestness of his religion—why, they increased the number and frequency of my emotions to a almost alarmin' extent.
Manuscripts
Here are twenty-nine manuscripts all in his own hand.
They are truly worth more than their weight in gold—they are worth their weight in diamonds.