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By Adrian Pingstone, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Like the ideal Christian, the ideal teacher is one who spreads joy in everything, great or small.
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© Peter Trimming, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 generic.
A charming children’s rhyme that is also a test of the clearest speaker’s diction.
By James Bretherton (?1730-1806), after William Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In the opening lines of Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, the narrator explains the perverse whim that led him to leave his home shores behind.
By Willem van de Velde (1603-1707), via the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Samuel Pepys ran into a little knot of seafaring men at the Exchange, who told him some hair-raising tales about their time in Algiers.
© Andrey Mironov, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
When Rhoda, maid to John Mark and his mother, said Peter was standing at the gate, nobody in the house believed her.
By Jan Siberechts (1627-?1703), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In 1720, Welsh promoter William Howell opened a pleasure garden at Belsize House, but the pleasures drew the magistrates’ frowns.
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