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her heart.
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 32.
The Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 35
The Rump Parliament—so called because it had been sitting for such a long time.
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 35
Charles II was always very merry and was therefore not so much a king as a Monarch.
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 36
The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off, for fear of
Political Economy.
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 38
Napoleon’s armies always used to march on their stomachs shouting: ‘Vive l’Intèrieur!’
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 48.
Most memorable...was the discovery (made by all the rich men in England at once) that women
and children could work twenty-five hours a day in factories without many of them dying or
becoming excessively deformed. This was known as the Industrial Revolution.
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 49
Gladstone...spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question;
unfortunately whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 57
America was thus clearly top nation, and History came to a .
‘1066 and All That’ (1930) ch. 62
7.56 Seneca c.4 B.C.-A.D. 65
Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
‘Epistulae ad Lucilium’ letter 71, sect. 3
Homines dum docent discunt.
Even while they teach, men learn.
‘Epistulae Morales’ letter 7, sect. 8
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but
many ways out.
‘Epistulae Morales’ letter 70, sect. 14
Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
‘Phoenissae’ l. 152
Illi mors gravis incubat
Qui notus nimis omnibus
Ignotus moritur sibi.
On him does death lie heavily who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.