But at the same time I endeavored to do full justice to the better qualities of the Southern people and to explain how it happened that men otherwise so honorable and brave and humane could be led by the passions of a political warfare and race prejudice to commit such offences.
Hoar attempts to balance criticism of Southern actions with an understanding of their complexities.
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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.
We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.
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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