The Amateur Garden

The Amateur Garden

by | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized

This ravine, the middle one of the grove's three, is about a hundred feet wide. When I first began to venture the human touch in it, it afforded no open spot level enough to hold a camp-stool. From the lawn above to the river road below, the distance is three...
The Power Of One

The Power Of One

by | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized

For no monarchy is so absolute, but it is circumscribed with laws; but when the executive power is in the law-makers, there is no further check upon them; and the people must suffer without a remedy, because they are oppressed by their representatives. If I must...
The Marks Of Kingly Sovereignty

The Marks Of Kingly Sovereignty

by | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized

It is indeed their interest, who endeavour the subversion of governments, to discourage poets and historians; for the best which can happen to them, is to be forgotten. But such who, under kings, are the fathers of their country, and by a just and prudent ordering of...