"He falsely asserted that Jews hated Christians so much that they never met them without ejaculating curses on their h…"

"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…"

"The duke of Clarence and seconde brother to the kynge thanne beynge prysoner in the towre, was secretely put to deth …"

"Fabyan's own merits are little more than those of an industrious compiler, who strung together the accounts of his di…"

"Engelond his a wel god lond · ich wene ech londe best · Iset in the on end of the · worlde as al in the west · The se…"

"So clene lond is Engelond · and so cler withouten hore, The veireste men in the world · ther inne beth ibore, So clen…"