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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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Annunciation

Cynewulf reflects on the mystery of the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Mary.

1112

A Monument to Liberty

Samuel Smiles explains why the London and Birmingham Railway was an achievement superior to the Great Pyramid of Giza.

1113

The Blessings of Nicholas Mogilevsky

Passengers sharing Bishop Nicholas’s Moscow-bound flight found his blessings faintly silly — but that was when the engines were still running.

1114

The Grievances of the South

Victorian MP Richard Cobden believed British politicians supporting the slave-owning American South had been led a merry dance.

1115

Dixie on Thames

Victorian MP Richard Cobden offered a startling analogy for the American Civil War.

1116

The Reform Acts

Nineteenth-century Britain had busy industrial cities and a prosperous middle class, but no MPs to represent them.