“It seems that from a King, the Majesty fades Without many servants trailing his royalty It may be grand to engage them in spades But it is a great pain to depend on their loyalty.” Tablettes de la vie et de la mort Pierre Mathieu (1593-1621) A Paris: Iean Petit-Paz, rue...

“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1936 THE DEMOCRATIC BOOK, 1936 Philadelphia?, 1936? JK2313 1936 D38 oversize This book was given to...

“…my small stock of professional knowledge…” REPORTS DU TRES ERUDITE EDMUND SAUNDERS… Edmund Saunders (d. 1683) London: W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and M. Flesher, 1686 First edition Edmund Saunders grew up in poverty. He taught himself to read and write and eventually became Lord Chief Justice during the reign of...