Download or read book The Pageant of British History (Classic Reprint) written by Sir James Edward Parrott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pageant of British History T be Master of tbe Pageant spurs into tbe arena; be wanes bis baton, and tbe f trumpets sound. [n tbe distance you see a long frocession begin to wind its way across tbe greensward, and as it draws nearer and nearer you recognize tbe form and fasbion of men and women wbose names are writ large in tbe annals of our land. Here tbey come - bing and queen, statesman and priest, warrior and mercbant, poet and man of law, sbifiman and craftsman, yeoman and peasant - a motley tbrong, all sorts and conditions of men and women, bn and low, rieb and poor, gentle and simple, noble and base, bero and craven; yet eacb in bis or ber several degree a maber of bistory. T bese are tbe counterfeit presentments of tbe men and women wbo tbrougb twice a tbousand years bane made us wbat we are, and our glorious land wbat it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.