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Hazlitt, who as a child intensely dis liked the U.S., was almost a U.S. writer. His sister happened upon one of 1782's best-sellers - J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer. The Hazlitts were enchanted with its lyrical mixture of democracy and agriculture. Father Hazlitt, a struggling Unitarian minister, decided to emigrate. Soon Parson Hazlitt established Boston's first Unitarian church. But ill-health and parish problems (he would rather "die in a ditch," he said, than kowtow to his congregation) drove Parson Hazlitt back to Britain. Wrote...
Owner of a big hacienda called "Chiclin," and once owner of La Crénica, the Vice President once kept three desks in his enormous office. His countrymen report that a caller might be addressed as follows: "Have you, Sir, come to see His Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, Vice President of Peru? Or have you come to see Señior Larco Herrera, Owner and Publisher of La Crénica? Or perhaps you have come to see Don Rafael Larco Herrera, Director and General Manager of Hacienda Chiclin." According to the answer, he would sit down...
...Battle of Crécy (1346) was notable for the introduction of two "secret" weapons by the British-gunpowder (which fizzled) and the longbow, with which the British put the armored French knights to rout. Nevertheless, the Hundred Years War dragged on into the next century without decisive result...
...CR: "Well...
...CR: "I apologize for any embarrassment caused the House...