Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
James Bryce
Born: May 10, 1838
Died: January 22, 1922 (aged 83)
Bio: James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician.
Known for:
- The American Commonwealth (1888)
- The Holy Roman Empire (1864)
- Studies in Contemporary Biography (1903)