Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence
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"We must exit this broken and failing system and start building a new one immediately."
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Barry Gray’s stately Zero X Theme, performed by the Tokyo Garden Orchestra.
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Lectures Delivered in America, by Charles Kingsley (published 1875). Let me begin this lecture with a scene in the North Atlantic 863 years since. ‘Bjarne
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Romance is perhaps the highest point of human expression, except indeed religion, to which it is closely allied. Romance resembles religion especially in this, that it is not only a simplification but
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"You don’t want to do it but you’ve got to, because he’s part of the family; one of our people. You know you have to get him out.”
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Of the various grades of officers commanding in the Roman legion, the Centurion, though not of the highest honor, was of the greatest use.
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And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the
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He who is Sultan so remote to the East that his dominions were deemed fabulous in Babylon, whose name is a by-word for distance today in the streets of Bagdad, whose capital
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Pickwick is in Dickens’s career the mere mass of light before the creation of sun or moon. It is the splendid, shapeless substance of which all his stars were ultimately made.
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