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© Ian Capper, Geograph. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mrs Partington and Her Mop by Sydney Smith

The defiant Mrs Partington took on the full might of the Atlantic Ocean.

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By Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), via the British Museum and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

War is Such a Taxing Business by Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith warned ordinary Americans that encouraging the hawks in Washington would cost them more than blood.

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Will Adams : An Elizabethan mariner reaches Japan under terrible hardships, only to find himself under sentence of death at the hands of his fellow Europeans.
When in the Name of Jesus’ Cross : A hymn for Holy Saturday by the eighth-century Syrian hymnographer St John Damascene.
Brightest Beacon : Christ’s cross promises to take away the fear of Judgment Day.
A Collect for Easter Day : A short prayer from the Book of Common Prayer, for the day of Christ’s resurrection.
The Gambler : Which well-known expression is Dr Johnson talking about here?
If I Had But Two Little Wings : Samuel Taylor Coleridge holds on to those precious moments when loneliness is a problem for tomorrow.
Red Eye : Reconstruct the speaker’s original words from these reports.
Responsible : Combine each group of ideas into a single sentence, in as many ways as you can.
Opposites : Suggest words that seem opposite in meaning to the words in this list.
Three of a Kind : For each of these things, think of three different varieties of it.
The Son of God Goes Forth to War : A hymn in praise of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
Peace Plan : Report this brief exchange between Anna and M. Pierre and Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Metaphors : Choose one of these words and use it metaphorically, not literally.
The Marks of a Tyrant : Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle explains what it is that defines a tyranny.
Scrambled : Rewrite these sentences so that they do not use the word ‘and’.
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