George F. Hoar: “Nothing shakes the authority of a court more than the frequent habit of individual dissent.”

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.

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.