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Sweet and Sour by Samuel Johnson

The great Dr Johnson argues that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

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1394
Sweet Counsel by Joseph Addison

Advice is a dangerous gift, and for centuries our greatest writers have wondered how to dispense it safely.

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1395
Swept off her Feet by Jane Austen

Marianne Dashwood sprains an ankle, but help is at hand.

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1396
Table Steaks by Pierre-Jean Grosley

French travel writer Pierre-Jean Grosley toured Georgian London just in time to witness a culinary revolution: the sandwich.

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1397
Tag Questions

Complete each of these statements with a little request for confirmation.

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1398
Tamed by Wisdom, Freed by Grace by Elfric of Eynsham

Abbot Elfric expounds a Palm Sunday text to explain how Christianity combines orderly behaviour with intelligent and genuine liberty.

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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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