The Insular Arrogance Of The English Character

The Roman Legions Were Formed In The First Instance Of Citizen Soldiers, Who Yet Had Been Made To Submit To A Rigid Discipline, And To Feel That In That Submission Lay Their Strength.

No Student Of History Can Fail To See The Moral Interest Of The Middle Ages, Any More Than An Artist Can Fail To See Their Aesthetic Interest.

As To London We Must Console Ourselves With The Thought That If Life Outside Is Less Poetic Than It Was In The Days Of Old, Inwardly Its Poetry Is Much Deeper.

It Is Evident That In The Period Designated As That Of The Kings, When Rome Commenced Her Career Of Conquest, She Was, For That Time And Country, A Great And Wealthy City.

But If Anyone Supposes That There Was No Commercial Fraud In The Middle Ages, Let Him Study The Commercial Legislation Of England For That Period, And His Mind Will Be Satisfied, If He Has A Mind To Be Satisfied And Not Only A Fancy To Run Away With Him.