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Come O Thou Traveller Unknown by Charles Wesley

A superlative Christian poem based on Righteous Jacob’s encounter with an angel.

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Confusables

Compose sentences to bring out the similarities and differences between these words.

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Costume Drama by Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

When Lord Cochrane went to a fancy dress ball in Valetta, his costume nearly got him killed.

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Could Do Better by Sir Joshua Fitch

The Report of the Newcastle Commission confirmed that there were no Dotheboys Halls among Yorkshire’s private schools.

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Counsel’s Duty to his Client by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

When King George IV tried to divorce Queen Caroline with maximum embarrassment, her barrister warned that two could play at that game.

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Courage Under Fire by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Robert Clive turned seven hundred frightened recruits into crack troops by sheer force of personality.

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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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