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‘You Are No Parliament!’

By Edmund Ludlow

In April 1653, Oliver Cromwell learnt that Parliament was planning to prevent him from packing the Commons with yes-men.

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Posted April 19 2022

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Politics and the Pulpit

By Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke begged the clergy of England to give us all a break from the twenty-four-hour news cycle.

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Posted April 11 2022

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Everyone Has His Part

By William Dampier

William Dampier describes the hand-to-mouth existence of the aborigines of northwest Australia, and reveals a people far advanced in charity.

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Posted April 4 2022

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Wait and See

By Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke urged Englishmen not to congratulate the French revolutionaries on their new-found liberty until they knew what they would do with it.

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Posted March 31 2022

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The Vast Depths of Infinity

By Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright offers his readers a way of thinking about the enormous distances involved in any description of the solar system.

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Posted March 4 2022

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Written in the Skies

By Thomas Wright

Though some other sciences may seem to destroy it, astronomy restores a sense of religious awe.

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Posted March 4 2022

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The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat In most contests the choices are win, lose or draw, but what happened here remains a mystery.

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How I Met Nastenka The story-teller recalls his first meeting with Nastenka, and the man who brought them together.

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Scansion Turn these lines into well-punctuated lines of verse.

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Columbus Arthur Clough marvels at the vision of a man who could cross the Atlantic without knowing there was a farther shore.

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Loan Words Match each word to the language we have borrowed it from.

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Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? Whenever Charles Miner suspected an ulterior motive, he would say quietly ‘That man has an axe to grind!’

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A Full Day’s Play It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?

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Grammar Examine these sentences, and say whether the word ‘up’ should be removed.

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Sunday in London Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.

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Music Video Ronald Binge: Concerto for Alto Saxophone: II: Andante espressivo

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Ye Children, Hearken Unto Me David, fresh from another close encounter with Saul’s men, shares his advice for living a charmed life.

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Look Upon This Picture Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.

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Metaphors Rewrite these sentences, substituting each metaphor with another of similar meaning.

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Vocabulary Compose sentences to illustrate the meaning of these words.

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Music Video Henry Purcell: Miserere Mei

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Outbreak John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.

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The Peacock Throne The dazzling throne of the Mughal Emperors has vanished from history, but not before Abdul Hamid Lahori had seen it.

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