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What he had to say would have been true and apt and fit to be uttered in the earlier days of Athens and Rome, and true and apt and fit to be uttered for thousands of years to come.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “What he had to say would have been true and apt and fit to be uttered in the earlier days of Athens and Rome, and true…”
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Hoar suggests that Gladstone's insights are timeless and relevant across ages and cultures.
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To go fully into the role of the number three in British traditions would require a profound study; but it may be useful briefly to note its influence on the Bardic poetry-- the Triads, where the subjects are all grouped in threes.
But I like to think he will be sent on some errands like that of the presence which came to Ben Adhem with a great wakening light, rich and like a lily in bloom, to tell him that the name of him who loved his fellow men led all the names…
We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.
It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.
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