"This Speech, I own, gave me the first Reflection I ever had in my Life, and lock'd up all my Faculties for a long Time; nor was I able, for the Variety of Ideas that crowded my Brain, to make a Word of Answer, but stood like an Image of Stone"
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, A Cornish Man: ... By R. S. a Passenger in the Hector. In Two Volumes