George F. Hoar: “I showed also that the Chinese race had shown examples of the highest qualities of manhood, of intelligence, probity and…”

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.

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.

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.

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.