Subjects

Extracts from Literature

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The Object of a Liberal Education

Thomas Huxley believed that if schools did not ground their pupils in common sense, life’s examinations would be painful.

14

As I Came Through Sandgate

... I heard John Wesley sing. A visitor on the quayside on Sunday May 30th, 1742, would have stumbled into a crowd agape and a determined clergyman singing psalms.

15

Our England is a Garden

There is plenty of work in the garden of England for everyone, whether they have a green thumb or not.

16

What the Romans Did for Us

The Romans did bring some blessings to Britain, but none so great as the one they did not mean to bring.

17

Double Standards

Ralph Waldo Emerson wondered why New Yorkers elected to Congress the kind of man they would turn out of their own homes.

18

How to Learn a Language

When William Cobbett told his son James to be conscientious about his grammar lessons, he was drawing on hard-won experience.