William Darby Quotes

Seven...eight...nine... Some in the crowd shuffled for positions where they could have a better view. By now it was close to four o'clock, and the sun was setting slightly in the west. What that morning had been close to zero weather was now in the mid-forties. The dueling field, which had been sparkling with the morning frost was now dry.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

At a time when the annual production of sugar did not exceed thirty million pounds, the geographer William Darby predicted that Louisiana’s annual sugar production would eventually reach two hundred million pounds (which it did in the 1840s).