Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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What the Romans Did for Us

The Romans did bring some blessings to Britain, but none so great as the one they did not mean to bring.

50

Intolerable Power

If Parliament is going to force its will on distant peoples, it must also give them the vote.

51

Double Standards

Ralph Waldo Emerson wondered why New Yorkers elected to Congress the kind of man they would turn out of their own homes.

52

How to Learn a Language

When William Cobbett told his son James to be conscientious about his grammar lessons, he was drawing on hard-won experience.

53

Navigating by History

The study of history can distract us from pressing modern problems, but failing to study it is much worse.

54

The Book That Made Kipling

Sir George MacMunn traces Kipling’s masterly handling of English and of storytelling to reading the King James Bible aloud.