All e-books of Hilaire Belloc

CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN _Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years_ Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. [Illustration] DUCKWORT...

PREFACE The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution: that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books.

[Illustration: Hebrew text] Constable & Company, Limited London Bombay Sydney First Published 1922 Second Impression 1922 To MISS RUBY GOLDSMITH MY SECRETARY FOR MANY YEARS AT K...

[Illustration] THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. DUCKWORTH, ...

AMORE ANTIQUI RITUS, ALTO SUB NUMINE ROMAE' PRAISE OF THIS BOOK To every honest reader that may purchase, hire, or receive this book, and to the reviewers also (to whom it is of triple profit)...

INTRODUCTION THE CATHOLIC CONSCIENCE OF HISTORY I say the Catholic "conscience" of history--I say "conscience"--that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is...

CHAPTER I ENTITLED _AL-RAFSAT_, OR THE KICK In the days of Abd-er-Rahman, who was among the wisest and most glorious of the Commanders of the Faithful, there resided in the City of Bagdad an eld...

36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON * * * * * DEDICATION TO THE OTHER MAN MR PHILIP KERSHAW _There were once two men.

TO MAURICE BARING CONTENTS ON THE PLEASURE OF TAKING UP ONE'S PEN ON GETTING RESPECTED IN INNS AND HOTELS ON IGNORANCE ON ADVERTISEMENT ON A HOUSE ON THE ILLNESS OF MY MUSE ON A DOG AN...

BY H. BELLOC ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM HYDE LONDON CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LIMITED 1911 TO PHILIP KERSHAW AND HAROLD BAKER MY COMPANIONS ON ...

by H. B. With Illustrations by B. B. Authors of "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts" "More Beasts for Worse Children" "The Modern Traveller" etc.

BY H. BELLOC DEDICATION _To Somebody_ CONTENTS A PLEA FOR ...

I THE POLITICAL OBJECT AND EFFECT OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN It must continually be insisted upon in military history, that general actions, however decisive, are but the functions of campaigns; a...

CHAPTER I CHARLES I.--_continued_.

[Illustration] MORE BEASTS (For WORSE CHILDREN) VERSES BY H.B. PICTURES BY B.T.B. LONDON: ...

On Weighing Anchor Personally I should call it "Getting It up," but I have always seen it in print called "weighing anchor"--and if it is in print one must bow to it.

INTRODUCTION Between those last precise accounts of military engagements which antiquity has left us in small number, and what may be called the modern history of war, there lies a period of many...

MORE PEERS Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. [Illustration] LONDON: DUCKWORTH & CO.

INTRODUCTION The Battle of Poitiers was fought ten years and four weeks after that of Crécy.

_Ceux dont la Fantaisie Sera religieuse et dévote envers Dieu Tousjours achèveront quelque grant Poésie, Et dessus leur renom la Parque n'aura lie...

England has been built up upon the framework of her rivers, and, in that pattern, the principal line has been the line of the Thames.

I THE POLITICAL MEANING OF MALPLAQUET That political significance which we must seek in all military history, and without which that history cannot be accurate even upon its technical side, may ...

PART I THE POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCE The Battle of Tourcoing is one of those actions upon which European history in general is somewhat confused, and English history, in particular, ignorant.

PART I THE POLITICAL OBJECTIVE The proper understanding of a battle and of its historical significance is only possible in connection with the campaign of which it forms a part; and the campaign...