...was uneasy ; at night he had little rest. Sometimes he never closed his eyes from grief. It became not so much a trial for academical reputation, as...of a work which might be useful to injured Africa. He always slept with a candle in the room, that he might get up and put down thoughts which suddenly...

...proved to me. . .. .In the night I had little rest. I sometimes never closed my eyelids for grief. ...I always slept with a candle in my room, that I might rise out of my bed and put down such thoughts as might occur to me in the night." The prize won, and the Essay...

...subject from morning to night. In the daytime I was uneasy. In the night I had little rest. I sometimes never closed my eyelids for grief. It became now not...might be useful to injured Africa. And keeping this in my mind ever after the perusal of Benezet, I always slept with a candle in my room, that I might...

...dare.' No person can tell the severe trial which the writing for the prize proved to me ; it became not so much a trial for academical reputation as for the production of a work that might be useful to injured Africa. I was honoured with the prize. On returning to London, the...

...day-time I was uneasy. In the night I had little rest. I sometimes never closed my eyelids for grief. ... I always slept with a candle in my room, that I might rise out of bed and put down some thoughts as might occur to me in the night, if I judged them valuable, conceiving that no arguments...