"Gervase is not one of the great historians of his age, but he illustrates with fidelity the tone and temper of his mo…"

"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…"