. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . hepotential powers of development of a people by eyeing theirmaterial gaias or possessions. Kpictetus penned some of themost superb thoughts by the flickering light of a common claylamp, his means being insufficient to enable him to buy aniron one. So with Britain: her possessions were small, buther potentialities were great. It was among this people that the Romans establishedtheir legates, propraetors, and legions from 43 untilthe early years of the fifth century. For some 366 years—a period of time equal to that which separates us f
. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . hepotential powers of development of a people by eyeing theirmaterial gaias or possessions. Kpictetus penned some of themost superb thoughts by the flickering light of a common claylamp, his means being insufficient to enable him to buy aniron one. So with Britain: her possessions were small, buther potentialities were great. It was among this people that the Romans establishedtheir legates, propraetors, and legions from 43 untilthe early years of the fifth century. For some 366 years—a period of time equal to that which separates us fromHenry VIIIs reign—Roman citizens, soldiers of Rome whocame from all parts of Europe, North Africa, and AsiaMiaor, Roman judges, doctors, grammarians, and lawyers,were continually in Britain. The result was that in timethe Britons became completely Romanized: their childrenlearnt to recite Virgil at school, their potters wrote theirscrawls in the I^atin tongue, their very brickmakers wereacquainted with that language and used it as a matter 53. HISTORY OF ENGLAND of course.! As Gibbon said many years ago, The lan-guage of Virgil and Cicero, though with some inevitablemixture of corruption, was so universally adopted in . .Britain . . that the faint traces of the . . Celtic idioms werepreserved only in the mountains, or among the peasants. ^Thanks to the encouragement given byAgricola to the British youths to learn I/atin,the inhabitants of this island as early asthe first century were proficient in that lan-guage and were capable of delivering orationsin the tongue of Rome. Nor must it be ima-gined that this applied only to the childrenMEDICINE Stamp of the wealthy and noble. As Professor°^^f^^r^ Haverfield says, There is much truth inthe remark that in the lands ruled by Romeeducation was better under the Empire than at any time sinceits fall till the nineteenth century. There were schools inBritain eighteen himdred years ago. What they taught isalmost lost to us, their
Size: 1607px × 1554px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauth, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidcu31924027942345
