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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1045

Undoubting Thomas

Abbot Elfric praised St Thomas for demanding hard evidence for the resurrection.

1046

Heracles and the Mares of Diomedes

Eurystheus pits his cousin against a son of Ares and some man-eating horses.

1047

Perilous Waters

King Saul’s jealousies drove those who loved him away, but David was a very different kind of leader.

1048

The Price of Treachery

A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.

1049

The First Easter

In a translation from the Authorized Version of the Bible, published in 1611, St Mark recounts the discovery of Christ’s empty tomb.

1050

Pangur Bán

A 9th century Irish monk scribbled some verses about a beloved cat into his copy book.