Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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865

The Temperate Zone

William Pitt complained that European politics offers only a choice of inhospitable extremes.

866

The Avengers

John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.

867

The Garden and the Machine

John Buchan compared how the Germans and the British understood their empires, and saw two very different pictures indeed.

868

Raw Haste

The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.

869

Hard Rain

Some likened tax-and-spend to a refreshing shower of rain, but for William Cobbett the rain wasn’t falling mainly on the plain man.

870

The Kitten on the Wall

William Wordsworth watches a playful kitten, and makes himself a promise.