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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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The Garden and the Machine

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

878

Raw Haste

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

879

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.

880

The Kitten on the Wall

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

881

‘Never Trust Experts’

Lord Salisbury seeks to calm the Viceroy of India’s nerves in the face of anti-Russian hysteria.

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Heracles and Cerberus

In the last of his twelve labours, the hero must snatch the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld.