Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon – it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward – sometimes even has turned round and retrograded. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
