本书摘录:
Royal Children Of English History
CONTENTS
Alfred the Great
Prince Arthur
Henry the Third
The First Prince of Wales
Edward the Black Prince
Henry the Fifth and the Baby King
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Alfred the Great
WHEN I was very, very little, I hated history more than all my other lessons put together, because I had to learn it out of a horrid little book, called somebody‘s "Outlines of English History"; and it seemed to be all the names of the kings and the dates of battles, and, believing it to be nothing else, I hated it accordingly.
I hope you do not think anything so foolish, because, really, history is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the things that are happening here and now, and that are put in the newspapers, will be history for little children one of these days.
The people in those old times were the same kind of people who live now. Mothers loved their children then, and fathers worked for them, just a
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