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Updated: May 5, 2025
Costly ingredients such as pearls and leaf gold appear only once among Digby's receipts. The modern housewife may be aghast at the thought of more than a hundred ways of making mead and metheglin. Mead recalls to her perhaps her first history-book, wherein she learnt of it as a drink of the primitive Anglo-Saxons.
As for those Greeks and Romans whom you have read of in "sheepskin," were you to know really what those monsters were, you would blush all over as red as a hollyhock, and put down the history-book in a fury. Many of our English worthies are no better. You are not in a situation to know the real characters of any one of them.
"Thank you," said Rosamund. "Then you don't want to say anything more?" "I don't think I do." "I will come in again to-night. The child's case is interesting. She is a dear little creature." The doctor went away, and Rosamund entered the schoolroom. The girls were trying to perform their usual tasks. Irene was bending over a history-book.
Really, these remind me of a picture in my history-book, of the first train ever run in America!" Mrs. Pitt smiled. "Yes, I can imagine just how strange they must seem to you, for I remember very well how I felt the first time I ever rode in one of your trains. To me, one of the most interesting things about visiting a foreign country, is to see the different modes of travel."
Lanty uttered an only too emphatic curse upon the misbelievers, and Arthur vainly tried to make him believe that their 'Allah il Allah' was neither addressed to Mohammed nor the sun. 'Sure and if not, why did they make their obeisance to it all one as the Persians in the big history-book Master Phelim had at school? 'It's to the east they turn Lanty, not to the sun.
Then just as Lottchen's legs were beginning to ache badly, and she was nearly crying, he helped them on by telling the story of the assassination of Julius Cæsar. Trudel had read about it in her history-book at school; but it was written in such dreadfully historical language that she had not understood the story; she found it thrillingly interesting as father told it.
There is a kind of history-book that sorts the bones and ties them all about with strings, that sets the past up and bids it walk. Yet it will not wag a finger. Its knees will clap together, its chest fall in. Such books are like the scribblings on a tombstone; the ghost below gives not the slightest squeal of life.
There is no perspective in a right view of history: the centuries do not diminish in length as they recede from our own day. The perception of this very simple fact has not come to many of our historians or to any of our politicians. It should be, indeed, the first sentence in every school history-book, and the don should begin each course of lectures with it.
I was reading a history-book by the lamp when we didn't go to church we had to read history-books and I suddenly heard her say, out of the fog, which was in the room, and apropos of nothing: 'Papa has done something wicked. And the curious thing was that I believed it on the spot and have believed it ever since, though she could tell me nothing more neither what was the wickedness, nor how she knew, nor what would happen to him, nor anything else about it.
He had turned away from the window now, and was entering earnestly into the conversation. "I just tell you what, Betty, it's a different thing to peg away at an old, torn history-book at school, and to come over here and see things and places, while Mrs. Pitt tells you about them! Why, I honestly like English history the way we're learning it now!" Betty smiled in an elder-sisterly fashion.
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