Subjects

Character and Conduct

Stories illustrating noble deeds in matters both great and small, such as the noble gesture of Sir Philip Sidney, and the determination of Benjamin Disraeli.

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Education of the Heart

For Jane Austen, the best education a father can give to his child is to befriend her.

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The Blessing of Disguise

A mysterious knight and an equally mysterious outlaw agree to preserve one another’s incognito.

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Honourable Mr Fox

The colourful Foreign Secretary humbly accepted a lesson in manners from a local tradesman.

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Perilous Waters

King Saul’s jealousies drove those who loved him away, but David was a very different kind of leader.

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The Price of Treachery

A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.

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Life’s Infantry

However obscure a man may apparently be, his example to others inevitably shapes the future of his country.