Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Goodwin Sands” in chapter 28, page 368 of Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2:
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non sequitur: the effect did not come from the cause named,--we always quoted the English proverb, Tenterden steeple is the cause of Goodwin Sands .
We said, How ignorant a population!
But when we went deeper into the history, we found that the proverb was not meant for logic, but was meant for sarcasm.
One of the bishops had fifty thous...
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