Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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At fifteen John Dalton was a village schoolmaster in Kendal; at forty he had published the first scientific theory of atoms.
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Abbot Elfric praised St Thomas for demanding hard evidence for the resurrection.
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Eurystheus pits his cousin against a son of Ares and some man-eating horses.
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King Saul’s jealousies drove those who loved him away, but David was a very different kind of leader.
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A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.
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In a translation from the Authorized Version of the Bible, published in 1611, St Mark recounts the discovery of Christ’s empty tomb.