Belloc Blog Posts

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~Hilaire Belloc.

It was a very rainy morning. My fever was not getting any better so we decided to get indoors throughout the morning. But like the happy feet that I am, we went out for lunch and tried one of the best restaurants, not only in ...

by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend. Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; Wine, privilege of the completely free; Wine the recorder; wine the ...

An example of one such project would an edition of the letters between Anglo-French Catholic author Hilaire Belloc (1870 ? 1953) and Winston and Clementine Churchill. You would have most likely found out about this piece ...

It was like a quick-planned vacation because I had to pack my stuff 3 hours before our departure at the bus station. So imagine my dilemma of what to wear and what to bring on our trip. After my work, I have to fly home to ...

Hilaire Belloc bought King's Land (in Shipley, Sussex), 5 acres and a working windmill for ?1000 in 1907 and it was his home for the rest of his life. Belloc loved Sussex as few other writers have loved her: he lived there for ...

A New Year Message from Hilaire Belloc. Since everybody else seems to be giving a New Year message, I thought I'd give Belloc a chance. This is from his 1902 The Path to Rome, which I'm reading at the moment in the ...

DOWNLOADS BOOK Product Details: Paperback: 408 pages Publisher: Gibson Square Books (December 11, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 1903933323 ISBN-13: 978-1903933329 Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 ...

Hilaire Belloc bought King's Land (in Shipley, Sussex), 5 acres and a working windmill for ?1000 in 1907 and it was his home for the rest of his life. Belloc loved Sussex as few other writers have loved her: he lived there for ...

Someone left a comment on a previous post that Hilaire Belloc was not only a horrible singer (that's what I had said) but that,. Nor could he do politics in an honourable way! I don't know about that. In fact, I think he could and ...

This reminded me, in a random way, of a line from a Hilaire Belloc poem: "The rich arrived in pairs and also in Rolls Royces and talked of their affairs in loud and strident voices." I think that line is from Belloc's "Cautionary Tales for Children" ...

Chesterton's French-born friend Hilaire Belloc tried, likewise, to stem the growing tide of popular Darwin nonsense. Reading Belloc's penetrating insights on many such subjects in Survivals and New Arrivals is, it must be said, ...

Now, it is the communitarian fascism, also called "distributism," of the early 20th-Century Englishmen G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, mothered into Prime Minister Cameron's new Tory government by the imperial Fabian ...

Continuing with my reading plan for the year, I decided to read Hilaire Belloc's "short" essay Europe and the Faith (available free for Kindle) - being a modern American, my version of a short essay is much shorter than this one ...

'From quiet homes and first beginnings, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends' Hilaire Belloc's 'Dedicatory Ode' ...

?Then, let us answer to Hilaire Belloc, ?You're wrong, for the Maxim Gun we have got!? ?You're wrong, for the Maxim Gun we have got!?"A response to Hilaire Belloc's anti-imperialist couplet: ?Whatever happens, we have got ...

Born in a Village near Paris in eighteen seventy and he went to the reaper in nineteen fifty three. And in his most amazing life he was for awhile a British M P. But it is mostly as a great writer that he is remembered today ...

Hilaire Belloc. The south-west wind roaring in from the Atlantic?. is, I think the presiding genius of England. Saturday, January 7th, 2012 at 4:05 pm. Filed under Uncategorized. Subscribe to RSS 2.0. Leave a comment or trackback.

From the (ironic) Preface to Hilaire Belloc's book The Battleground :-) This book needs a brief apology. The writer has not only taken for granted that there is a God, but also design in the Universe and in the story of Mankind.

About Hilaire Belloc. The French-born English writer Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc (1870-1953) was a noted poet, historian, essayist, and novelist. Throughout his literary career he was concerned with the problems of social ...