. Tom Browns school-days . THE BROWN FAMILY Im the Poet of White Horse Vale, sir,With liberal notions under my cap. —BALLAD. HE Browns have become illustrious by the penof Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle withinthe memory of the young gentlemen who arenow matriculating at the universities. Not-withstanding the well-merited but late famewhich has now fallen upon them, any one atall acquainted with the family must feel thatmuch has yet to be written and said before the British nation willbe properly sensible of how much of its greatness it owes to the m. TOM BROWNS Browns. For centuries, in the
. Tom Browns school-days . THE BROWN FAMILY Im the Poet of White Horse Vale, sir,With liberal notions under my cap. —BALLAD. HE Browns have become illustrious by the penof Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle withinthe memory of the young gentlemen who arenow matriculating at the universities. Not-withstanding the well-merited but late famewhich has now fallen upon them, any one atall acquainted with the family must feel thatmuch has yet to be written and said before the British nation willbe properly sensible of how much of its greatness it owes to the m. TOM BROWNS Browns. For centuries, in their quiet, dogged, homespun way,they have been subduing the earth in most English counties, andleaving their mark in American forests and Australian the fleets and armies of England have won renown,there stalwart sons of the Browns have done yeomans 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-culverin against Spaniards and Dutchmen—with hand-grenade and sabre, and musket and bayonet, underRodney and St. Vincent, Wolfe and Moore, Nelson and Welling-ton, they have carried their lives in their hands; getting hardknocks and hard work in plenty, which was on the whole whatthey looked for, and the best thing for them; and little praise orpudding, which indeed they and most of us are better and Stanleys, St. Maurs, and such-like folk, have ledarmies and made laws time out of mind; but those noble familieswould
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