three-and-forty

Updated: May 27, 2025

Ten years later the name of Samuel Adams was known, hated, and honored on the English side of the Atlantic. Samuel Adams was one of those men whom Nature forges to be the instruments of revolution. His three-and-forty years had taught him much: the value of silence, the knowledge of men, the desire to change the world and the patience to bide his time.

Justin McCarthy - A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III