George F. Hoar: “The Judge began his charge to the jury: "Gentlemen of the jury, a man who takes up a cow straying in a highway is a…”

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 speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.

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.