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1795
The Rests in Life’s Melody John Ruskin

A benevolent lecturer has to persuade a class of restless girls to stay inside on a rainy day.

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1796
The Return of King Charles II John Evelyn

Almost nine years after Oliver Cromwell’s army drove him from England, King Charles II returned at their invitation, and John Evelyn was there to see it.

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1797
The Rewards of ‘Patience’ Clay Lane

How appropriate that the comic opera ‘Patience’ should introduce the world to the results of thirty years of labour.

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1798
The Rewards of Treachery Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero warns those who seek power through civic unrest that they will never be the beneficiaries of it.

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1799
The Richmond Shilling The London Journal of Arts and Sciences

For centuries our coal industry was plagued by regulations and taxes, but a tax imposed in 1667 seemed to have nothing to do with coal at all.

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1800
The Right Words in the Wrong Order Mr Addison

Such was the reputation of the Prussian army in the days of the Frederick the Great that even foreigners wanted to join.

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