George F. Hoar: “It is a cause of a just sense of elevation of character; it clears and strengthens the spirits; it gives higher reaches…”

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 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.

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.