Subjects

Extracts from Literature

in The Copy Book

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Honourable Mr Fox

The colourful Foreign Secretary humbly accepted a lesson in manners from a local tradesman.

470

Mr Ivery Gets Away

Richard Hannay tracks a German spy down to a French château, but Hannay’s sense of fair play gives his enemy a chance.

471

Undoubting Thomas

Abbot Elfric praised St Thomas for demanding hard evidence for the resurrection.

472

Pangur Bán

A 9th century Irish monk scribbled some verses about a beloved cat into his copy book.

473

Tamed by Wisdom, Freed by Grace

Abbot Elfric expounds a Palm Sunday text to explain how Christianity combines orderly behaviour with intelligent and genuine liberty.

474

Breaking Death

For Jesus Christ to step down alive from his cross would have been a mighty miracle, but not the mightiest.