Category: History - British
Elphin, son of Gwyddno, the prince who ruled the coasts between the Dovey and the Ystwith, came down on a May-day morning to his father's fishing- weir. All that was taken that morning was to be Elphin's, had Gwyddno said. Not a fish was taken that day; and Elphin, who was eve...
Thenceforward the weeks rolled smoothly on, unmarked by moving incident, till they gladdened us with the growing light of spring, and brought us within near sight of our home. M...
9. Chapter 9"_Happy is the people which has no history_." _Stands this too among the beatitudes_? _Surely this were a fit evangel only for sheep and oxen_, _or for such human kine as covet...
11. Chapter 11"England, when she goes to war," said a Prime Minister not long ago, "has not to consider whether she will be able to fight a second or a third campaign." We remembered that we...
10. Chapter 10_The farmer vext packed up his beds and chairs_, _And all his household stuff_, _and with his boy_ _Betwixt his knees_, _his wife upon the tilt_, _Sets forth_, _and meets a frie...
5. Chapter 5The primitive man, after he has satisfied the claims of appetite, stitched his skin-mantle, and thatched a hut, may begin to spare time for reflection on the quality and flavour...
4. Chapter 4The careful general who has completed his disposition without one discoverable flaw, who has foreseen all emergencies, and anticipated every possible combination, may await the...
8. Chapter 8_O summer day_, _beside the joyous sea_! _O summer day_, _so wonderful and white_, _So full of gladness and so full of pain_! _For ever and for ever shalt thou be_ _To some the...
1. Chapter 1Elphin, son of Gwyddno, the prince who ruled the coasts between the Dovey and the Ystwith, came down on a May-day morning to his father's fishing- weir. All that was taken that...
7. Chapter 7"Who ought to take the command, in the event of anything happening to your lordship?" asked Wellington's officers on an occasion in the Peninsular War. "Beresford," the great st...
3. Chapter 3_Your snail is your only right house-builder_; _for he builds his house out of the stuff of his own vitals_, _and therefore wherever he travel he carries his own roof above him_...
6. Chapter 6If a school be an institution for teaching purposes, its school-room and class-rooms should be the most essential portion of its plant. Without discussing the adequacy of the de...
2. Chapter 2The Trustees of the School met at Uppingham on March 11th. This was the earliest opportunity of consulting them collectively on the resolution to break up the school and to migr...