Tom Brown's School Days
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217645935
Paperback|9780217645935
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL-DAYS. BY AN OLD BOY. CHAPTER I. I 'm the Poet of White Horse Vale, sir, With liberal notions under my cap. Ballad. 'HE BROWNS have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the Universities. Notwithstanding the well-merited but late fame which has now fallen upon them, any one at all acquainted with the family must feel that much has yet to be written and said before the British nation will be properly sensible of how much of its greatness it owes to the Browns. For centuries, in their quiet, dogged, homespun way, they have been subduing the earth in most English counties, and leaving their mark in American forests and Australian uplands. Wherever the fleets and armies of England have won renown, there stalwart sons of the Browns have done yeoman's work. With the yew-bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt, with the brown bill and pike under the brave Lord Willoughby, with culverin and demi-cul- verin against Spaniards and Dutchmen, with hand- grenade and sabre and musket and bayonet, under Rodney and St. Vincent, Wolfe and Moore, Nelson and Wellington, they have carried their lives in their hands, getting hard knocks and hard work in plenty, ? which was on the whole what they looked for, and the best thing for them, ? and little praise or pudding, which indeed they and most of us are better without. Talbots and Stanleys, St. Maurs, and such-like folk, have led armies and made laws time out of mind; but those noble families would be somewhat astounded ? if the accounts ever came to be fairly taken ? to find how small their work for England has been by the side of that of the Browns. These latter, indeed, have until the present generation rar...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217645935 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217645933 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 220 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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