Paolo Sarpi (14 August 1552 – 15 January 1623) was an Italian historian, prelate, scientist, canon lawyer, and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict (1605–1607) and its war (1615–1617) with Austria over the Uskok pirates. His writings, frankly polemical and highly critical of the Catholic Church and its Scholastic tradition, "inspired both Hobbes and Gibbon in their own historical debunkings of priestcraft." Sarpi's major work, the History of the Council of Trent (1619), was published in London in 1619; other works: a History of Ecclesiastical Benefices, History of the Interdict and his Supplement to the History of the Uskoks, appeared posthumously. Organized around single topics, they are early examples of the genre of the historical monograph.
As a defender of the liberties of Republican Venice and proponent of the separation of Church and state, Sarpi attained fame as a hero of republicanism and free thought and possible crypto Protestant. His last words, "Esto perpetua" ("may she [i.e., the republic] live forever"), were recalled by John Adams in 1820 in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, when Adams "wished 'as devoutly as Father Paul for the preservation of our vast American empire and our free institutions', as Sarpi had wished for the preservation of Venice and its institutions,"
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by: Pleasure PI see the wind is blowing through her hair tonight, ooh
And the champaign is flowing up in here tonight, oh lord
She said I'll give you my number if you promise to call me
And maybe later we can get into somethin'
'Cause now I wanna feel you up on me
Magic has happened, it must be my lucky night, ay
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And I must be the luckiest man in the world
The way she touched me, got me feelin' lucky, oh ooh
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Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh [x2]
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I saw her dancing, so I called her over here and I
I told her my name and she said
I'll give you my number if you promise to call me
And maybe later we can get into somethin'
'Cause now I wanna feel you up on me
Magic has happened, it must be my lucky night, ay
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And I must be the luckiest man in the world
The way she touched me, got me feelin' lucky, oh ooh
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I seen a lot of supermodels
Groupies too, look at what they'll do for bottles
But, she's different she's so rare
She's so clean, how you not gon' stare
She don't got a wing but she walks on air
I'm so greedy homie, I don't wanna share
I may be hatin' but I don't really care
'Cause I don't wanna see her over there
I want her right here
Choosin', she ain't have a choice
Between a Blue Ice and a black Rolls Royce
She lookin' for a man she don't want them boys
And I'm a make her scream till she got no voice
I'm still the lucky one, I feel that way when you touch me, hun
I feel like I could touch the sun
It's a lot of dudes here but she fucks with one, Young, Uh
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The way she touched me, got me feelin' lucky, oh ooh
I must be the luckiest man in the world
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Oooh, Oooh, luckiest man in the world
Luckiest man in the world