The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

1255

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The Outbreak of the Great War Clay Lane

Germany felt she had a right to an empire like Britain’s, and she was willing to get it at the expense of her neighbours.

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1256

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A Pyrrhic Victory Plutarch

The ancient Greek King knew victory had cost his army more than it could afford to lose.

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1257

© Richard Croft, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Man Who Left No Footprints Clay Lane

A young monk was rewarded for taking his duties as guest-master seriously.

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1258

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The Rewards of Treachery Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero warns those who seek power through civic unrest that they will never be the beneficiaries of it.

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1259

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How Britain Abolished Slavery Clay Lane

The Church, mother Nature and free markets had almost done for slavery at home when colonies in the New World brought it back.

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1260

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The Obstinacy of Fowell Buxton Clay Lane

Fatherless teenage tearaway Fowell Buxton was not a promising boy, but the Gurney family changed all that.

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