Cowper, William (1816): Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq, R. Edwards, s. 20-21. Sitat: «They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horror of my situation; others can have none.»
Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Huxley, Leonard (2011): Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I., Cambridge University Press, s. 194. Sitat: «I am really nervous to a degree, and though I joined debating societies on purpose, and studied speeches and stood up to deliver them, I never could get two sentences on,”
I am really nervous to a degree, and though I joined debating societies on purpose and studied speeches and stood up to deliver them, I never could get two sentences on.»
