Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
If you have read, gentle reader, the earlier series of _Letters to my Grandson on the World about Him_, you are to understand that in the interval between those letters and these, Antony has grown to be a boy in the sixth form of his public school.
He must very early in life have made his mark as a man of learning and piety, for when he was only thirty-one he was made Master of the Temple. The controversies in which he the...
1. Chapter 1If you have read, gentle reader, the earlier series of _Letters to my Grandson on the World about Him_, you are to understand that in the interval between those letters and thes...
3. Chapter 3In these letters I do not intend to mistake a pedlar for a mountaineer, nor a hearthstone for a granite peak. Time slowly buries deep in oblivion the writings of the industrious...
9. Chapter 9This teaching, no doubt, leads to fields of pleasantness and charm, and not at all to the high places of self-sacrifice, or the austere peaks of martyrdom. Burning indignation a...
5. Chapter 5"Perhaps, my lords, there is not to be found in the annals of history a character more truly great than that of William the Third. Perhaps no person has ever appeared on the the...
8. Chapter 8"The Serjeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was indeed not unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive and popu...
6. Chapter 6"To me, much reflecting on these things, it has always seemed a worthier honour to be the instrument of making you bestir yourselves in this high matter, than to enjoy all that...
7. Chapter 7"Venerable to me is the hard hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue indefeasibly royal, as of the sceptre of this planet. Venerable too is the rugg...
4. Chapter 4"Identification is a solid and imperial maxim, necessary for the preservation of freedom, necessary for that of empire; but, without union of hearts--with a separate government,...
10. Chapter 10"Never before in history have a people thus dedicated and maintained individual memorials to their fallen, and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself wh...