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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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One Man and his Dog

English explorer Major Edmund Lockyer tries to buy a puppy in Queensland, but ends up paying the owner to keep him.

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Virtue in Rags and Patches

Charles Dickens explains to the young men of Boston MA what it is that motivates him to write.

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‘To the Heights!’

St Gregory Palamas struggled all his life to stand up for the principle that the Bible means what it says.

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The Beautiful Side of the Picture

Heathen prince Boris I of Bulgaria (r. 852–889) commissioned St Methodius to paint an impressive scene for his palace walls.

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‘Let the boy earn his spurs!’

At the Battle of Crécy in 1346, the English army was trying out a new military tactic under the command of a sixteen-year-old boy.

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Samson’s Riddle

The Israelites under Philistia’s rule might have blended with their heathen masters had not Samson kept stirring up trouble.