Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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55

As I Came Through Sandgate

... I heard John Wesley sing. A visitor on the quayside on Sunday May 30th, 1742, would have stumbled into a crowd agape and a determined clergyman singing psalms.

56

The Causes of the Great War

John Buchan, who was as close as anyone to the events, gave his assessment of how all Europe was plunged into war in 1914.

57

The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

Governor Pitiorek assured the heir to the Austrian Empire that Bosnians rarely tried to murder the same man twice in one day.

58

Square Pegs in Round Holes

Many problems in life and society would be eased if we were better at reading characters — especially our own.

59

The Wisdom of Solon

The words of the ancient Athenian lawmaker, on the limits of legislation, sucking up to dictators, and the crime of lounging about.

60

Odysseus Comes Home

Now that King Odysseus has failed to return from the Siege of Troy, the earls of Ithaca are eager to marry his lovely widow.