Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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The Liberty-Lovers

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

914

The Supreme Indignity

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

915

Trunk and Disorderly

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

916

Never say ‘What, never?’ again

That infernal nonsense ‘Pinafore’ took America by storm.

917

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.

918

The Real Merchant

William Cobbett makes a distinction between everyday business and the murky world of Westminster lobbyists and financial speculation.