Marsanne PettyThe LetterIf you ask me why it is now three weeks since I received your letter and why it is only today that I answer it, I must tell you the truth…Mar 15, 2018Mar 15, 2018
Marsanne PettyThe Great SightAll night we had slept on straw in a high barn. The wood of its beams was very old, and the tiles upon the roof were green with age; but…Mar 13, 2018Mar 13, 2018
Marsanne PettyThe End of the WorldOne day I met a man who was sitting quite silent near Whitney, in the Thames Valley, in a very large, long, low inn that stands in those…Mar 7, 2018Mar 7, 2018
Marsanne PettyOn ErrorThere is an elusive idea that has floated through the minds of most of us as we grew older and learnt more and more things. It is an idea…Mar 2, 2018Mar 2, 2018
Marsanne PettyThe TideI wish I had been one of those men who first sailed beyond the Pillars of Hercules and first saw, as they edged northward along a barbarian…Feb 28, 2018Feb 28, 2018
Marsanne PettyThe Decline of a StateThe decline of a State is not equivalent to a mortal sickness therein. States are organisms subject to diseases and to decay as are the…Feb 26, 2018Feb 26, 2018
Marsanne PettyOn the Sources of RiversThere are certain customs in man the permanence of which gives infinite pleasure. When the mood of the schools is against them these…Feb 24, 2018Feb 24, 2018
Marsanne PettyThe Lost ThingsI never remember an historian yet, nor a topographer either, who could tell me, or even pretend to explain by a theory, how it was that…Feb 21, 2018Feb 21, 2018
Marsanne PettyOn CheesesIf antiquity be the test of nobility, as many affirm and none deny (saving, indeed, that family which takes for its motto “Sola Virtus…Feb 20, 2018Feb 20, 2018
Marsanne PettyThe PublicI notice a very curious thing in the actions particularly of business men to-day, and of other men also, which is the projection outward…Feb 16, 2018Feb 16, 2018
