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Bullies to the Weak, Cowards to the Strong by Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden wanted to know why British policy towards China was so different to our policy towards the USA and European powers.

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92
Character Counts! by Elbert Green Hubbard

Salesman Richard Cobden wondered why his employers left a full warehouse in his hands without any kind of security.

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93
Diplomatic Immunity by Sir James Melville

Sir James Melville eavesdrops on Queen Elizabeth I’s music practice, and incurs Her Majesty’s displeasure.

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94
Dixie on Thames by Richard Cobden

Victorian MP Richard Cobden offered a startling analogy for the American Civil War.

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95
Jibe and Joke by Sir Richard Steele

Sir Richard Steele takes up arms against the kind of wit who thinks you can be as nasty as you like provided you make people laugh.

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Love’s Last Knot by Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw offers the hope of eternity for wedded love.

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How Britain Brought Football to Chile : British expats in Valparaíso kicked off the Chilean passion for soccer.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
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