Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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Liberty and the Magistrate

The citizen should not dutifully accept government intrusion as the price of community life.

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Treat Me Like a King!

When Porus, the Indian king, surrendered to Alexander the Great at Jhelum, he had only one request to make of him.

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By Wager of Battle

It began to look as if Abraham Thornton might go down for rape and murder, so his attorneys dug deep into their bag of legal tricks.

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The Great Northern War

Peter the Great wanted Russia to join the nations of Western Europe, but the nations of Western Europe refused to make room for him.

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The Wisdom of the People

In one of his ‘Cato Letters’, John Trenchard took issue with the view (popular in Westminster) that the public could not be left to make up their own minds.

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Thank Heaven for Free Speech

The authors of the ‘Cato Letters’ recalled how Greek general Timoleon replied when the people he had saved from oppression turned and bit him.