Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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All Things ‘Nice’

Henry Tilney teases a bewildered Catherine Morland for her lazy vocabulary.

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The Liberty-Lovers

American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson praises the English public for still loving freedom, despite their politicians.

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The Supreme Indignity

Lord Salisbury tells his fellow statesmen that no country should have its laws dictated from abroad.

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Trunk and Disorderly

Arthur Wellesley watches on as one of his soldiers is rescued from a watery grave.

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Never say ‘What, never?’ again

That infernal nonsense ‘Pinafore’ took America by storm.

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Job’s City of Joy

The East India Company’s top agent in India was also the man who put Calcutta on the world map.