To attempt an introduction to a Guide to Devon and Cornwall is rather like trying to describe an apple and an orange in the same breath From an appropriate distance the two objects have a strong resemblance, the nearer you approach them the more different from each other they prove to be. No two adjoining counties in England are, I fancy, so dissımılar. It is even difficult for the casual tou…
Ance 02/10/24
Asm 25/09/24
Ar times of national crisis, such as war or periods of post-war readjustment, historians are likely to find themselves under pressure to sentimentalize the story of their country's development- if necessary, with some disregard of the truth. The teaching of history can indeed be used for the training of loyal citizens if the story of one's country is truly one of which the pa- triot can be prou…
Ance 20/09/24
For some time I have been interested in the changing fortunes of the adjective old-fashioned. I find it significant that this adjective has by now shed all of its pejorative associations. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary shows that a century ago old-fashioned had a wide currency in the sense of a child having the ways of a grown-up person, hence, precocious, knowing." Dickens would ha…
rst 02/07/24