Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
There are a few observations which may be deemed appropriate in presenting to the public this collection of extracts from the speeches of Godfrey Charles Morgan, first Viscount Tredegar; but it is inconceivable that any should be necessary by way of apology. During the course...
Offa's Dyke was formerly a great mound and ditch erected by King Offa somewhere in the year 900 or thereabouts, as a boundary between Wales and England, and it ran from the mout...
5. Part 5Sir William Preece has said that there were five new elements discovered within the last century. There were others undiscovered, and it only remained for some student to discov...
1. Part 1There are a few observations which may be deemed appropriate in presenting to the public this collection of extracts from the speeches of Godfrey Charles Morgan, first Viscount...
4. Part 4There are moments in a man's life when there is a contest between the lip and the eye, whether we should smile or cry. I am sure you would not like to see me cry just now, but t...
2. Part 2There are soul-stirring sounds in the fiddle and flute When music begins in the hall, And a goddess in muslin that's likely to suit As the mate of your choice for the ball. But...
3. Part 3There cannot possibly be an object in the wide world more worthy of sympathy than a girl without a friend. All over the world this Society has its habitations, and it has alread...
7. Part 7Many people have the impression that the Lord Mayor of London is the greatest man in this kingdom. There is a line or two in an old song relating to a lover who did not like to...