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Mistakes, Right and Wrong
By Sir Hubert Parry
Sir Hubert Parry explained to students at the Royal College of Music that some mistakes are creative whereas others are destructive.
248
The Open Sea
By Richard Cobden
Richard Cobden despaired at British statesmen using the peerless Royal Navy merely to strangle trade in other countries.
249
George Pinto
Music by George Pinto
An innovative English composer who did not live to fulfil his extraordinary promise.
250
Cuthbert, the Eagle and the Fish
By Clay Lane
St Cuthbert reminds a young monk that the labourer is worthy of her hire.
251
Faraday al Fresco
By Walter Jerrold
Michael Faraday’s tour of Europe included a ‘picturesque’ multicultural event on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
252
The Grand Mechanic
By Samuel Smiles
The more that pioneering engineer George Stephenson understood of the world around him, the more his sense of wonder grew.
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