The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

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Breaking Death Elfric of Eynsham

For Jesus Christ to step down alive from his cross would have been a mighty miracle, but not the mightiest.

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Redeeming Time Charles Dickens

Pip Pirrip never misses a moment of visiting time with Abel Magwitch, the convict who made him into a gentleman, in the prison hospital.

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At Heaven’s Gate Cynewulf

The eighth-century English bishop and poet Cynewulf takes us to the threshold of God’s holy city, and gives us a choice.

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The Six Leaps of Faith Cynewulf

The eighth-century English bishop and poet Cynewulf explores a prophecy from the Song of Solomon.

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Guardian of Peace John Stuart Mill

J. S. Mill argues that free trade has done more to put an end to war than any political union or military alliance.

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Heracles and the Cretan Bull Clay Lane

Heracles seems to be the only one who can keep Poseidon’s rampaging white bull under control.

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