First and Last

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Hilaire Belloc. First and Last

First and Last

Table of Contents

FIRST AND LAST

On Weighing Anchor

The Reveillon

On Cheeses

The Captain of Industry

The Inventor

The Views of England

The Lunatic

The Inheritance of Humour

The Old Gentleman's Opinions

On Historical Evidence

The Absence of the Past

St. Patrick

The Lost Things

On the Reading of History

The Victory

Reality

On the Decline of the Book: [And Especially of the Historical Book]

José Maria de Heredia

Normandy and the Normans

The Old Things

The Battle of Hastings. Related in the Manner of Oxford and Dedicated to that University

The Roman Roads in Picardy

The Reward of Letters

The Eye-Openers

The Public

On Entries

Companions of Travel

On the Sources of Rivers

On Error

The Great Sight

The Decline of a State

On Past Greatness

Mr. The Duke: The Man of Malplaquet

The Game of Cards

"King Lear"

The Excursion

The Tide

On a Great Wind

The Letter

The Regret

The End Of The World

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Hilaire Belloc

Published by Good Press, 2022

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