Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
© Derek Harper, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Henry Tilney teases a bewildered Catherine Morland for her lazy vocabulary.
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American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson praises the English public for still loving freedom, despite their politicians.
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Lord Salisbury tells his fellow statesmen that no country should have its laws dictated from abroad.
© T. R. Shankar Raman, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arthur Wellesley watches on as one of his soldiers is rescued from a watery grave.
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That infernal nonsense ‘Pinafore’ took America by storm.
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The East India Company’s top agent in India was also the man who put Calcutta on the world map.