"How and among whom this Palladian taste became formed it will be our business presently to inquire. The first point t…"

"Wanstead was a key building of its age. It looked back to Castle Howard, but by virtue of its purity of detail supers…"

"With the completion of Shepherd's Grosvenor Square houses, about 1730, the development of urban design in London ceas…"

"[Describing Bath, Somerset] The elder Wood lived only to see his Circus begun. He died in 1754, and it was completed …"

"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 …"