"The search for wisdom in precedent flourished as if naturally among a people whom foreign observers at a later date h…"

"G. H. Hardy in his apology for pure mathematics placed high among his arguments that the subject was "harmless". I ca…"

"The philosophy of history is a fascinating and important subject, but with the rarest exceptions its chief English ex…"

"I claim for students of history that their study – if properly conducted – can strip the mind of illusions, leading t…"

"No one knows more than Douglas about the early history of Normandy and here we have a magisterial survey of the duchy…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"Kynge Henry beynge in Normādy, after some wryters fell from, or with his horse, whereof he caughte his deth: but Ranu…"