The World of English

A Christmas story

A Christmas story. Ella Gray. A Christmas Story from an Australian Christmas collection: stories, sketches, essays by James Francis Hogan published in 1880. Christmas being, proverbially and traditionally the time for family …

Naval words heritage

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. Horatio Nelson A fleet of British ships at war …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
Soren Kierkegaard

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

The World of English, its language, its culture, its varieties, its future, and its infinite possibilities of communication in our small unique world.
Carl William Brown