Cuthbert’s Box
Shortly before Easter, an ivory box went missing from the gifts presented at the shrine of St Cuthbert.
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Read short passages like those NL Clay collected in his anthologies, and try your hand at solving little problems of grammar like those in his textbooks for school and home. There’s poetry and verse, and topics range from fables and fiction to biography, politics, and social comment. You can also filter the passages by topic and author.
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One Delicious Grinding Snip
If little Maggie Tulliver is going to get her hair cut, it’s going to be done on her own terms.
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Montagu’s Frolic
John, Duke of Montagu, that irrepressible prankster, identified a sad-faced soldier in the Mall as the perfect mark.
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On Having the Socks
In Erewhon, apologise by saying you have the socks and everyone will understand.
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The Legend of Pollard’s Lands
An enterprising knight rids the Bishop of Durham of a troublesome boar, but the price comes as a shock to his lordship.
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Handshakes
Sydney Smith tells of handshakes he has known, from those he barely felt to those he can feel to this day.
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A Life Well-Lived
Shakespeare’s friend and fellow-playwright Ben Jonson tells us how we should measure success.
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Inquire Within
Philosopher and social activist John Stuart Mill discusses the most liberating kind of education.
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Imagine
Educational reformer Emily Davies argued that education must not rob women of their imagination.
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