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Bergen’s Blessings Charles Isaac Elton

In the days of Henry II, relations with our cross-Channel neighbours were fractious, but we were fast friends with the people of Norway.

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Better By Example Gregory Nazianzen

Gregory urged the persecuted Christians of Nazianzus to be the better men.

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‘Better Habits, Not Greater Rights’ Samuel Smiles

The extraordinary productivity and social mobility of the Victorian era is to the credit not of the governing class, but of the working man.

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Better than a Play Karl Philipp Moritz

During his tour of England in 1782, Karl Philipp Moritz dropped in on the House of Commons, and thought the histrionics in the Chamber better than any play.

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‘Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts’ Publius Vergilius Maro

After spending years besieging the city of Troy, the Greek armies suddenly decamp, leaving behind only an enormous wooden sculpture of a horse.

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Beyond the Pale The Statutes of Kilkenny

Lionel of Clarence, Edward III’s younger son, went to Ireland as his Lieutenant in order to stop English expats becoming like the Irish.

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