Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Peasie wants to visit her lonely father, but she can’t get her sister Beansie to come along with her.
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After a hundred and forty-two slaves were tossed overboard in an insurance scam, Granville Sharp wouldn’t let the matter rest.
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William Shakespeare in sombre mood clings to love as the only changeless thing in a world of decay.
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Royalist soldier Sir Jacob Ashly exemplified a Christian gentleman in the heat of battle.
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Lord Macaulay believed that the disastrous reign of King John brought the country together.
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Sir Walter Scott tells of the tale of how a little spider inspired Robert the Bruce to win his country’s sovereignty.