The Exeter Road —— The Story of the West of England Highway

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ISBN: 9781330399187 出版年：2016 页码：335 Charles G Harper Forgotten Books

Book description have been suppressed; nor for this would it seem necessary to appear apologetic, even although local patriotism is a militant force, and resents anything less than a detailed and favour able description of every village, interesting or not. How militant parochial patriots may be the writer already knows. You may criticise the British Empire and prophesy its downfall if you feel that way inclined, and welcome; but it is the Unpardon able Sin to say that Little Pedlington is anything less than the cleanest, the neatest, and the busiest for its size of all the Sweet Auburns in the land Has not the writer been promised a bad quarter of an hour by the local press, should he revisit Cray ford, after writing of that uncleanly place in the dover road? And have the good folks of Chard still kept the tar and feathers in readiness for him who, daring greatly, presumed to say the place was so quiet that when the stranger appeared in its streets every head was out of doors and windows Point of view is everything. The stranger finds a place charming because everything in it is old, and quiet reigns supreme. Quietude and antiquity, how eminently desirable and delightful when found he thinks. Not so the dweller in such a spot. He would welcome as a benefactor any one who would.