Minis
Mini Copy Book

Discovery and Invention

It’s Better by Rail

A contributor to the ‘Annual Review’ shared a flurry of facts about the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway, showing what a blessing it already was.

Length: 116 words

Discovery and Invention

Roses and Poor-Rates

When Robert Southey called for a fairer and greener economy, Thomas Macaulay warned that only politicians and bureaucrats would thank him.

Length: 115 words

Character and Conduct

Career Change

An unemployed French labourer was amazed when a friend suggested becoming a French master to refined English ladies.

Length: 118 words

Character and Conduct

Up Before the Bench

As a young prince Henry V was ‘fierce and of wanton courage,’ Thomas Elyot tells us, but there was one man with courage to match his.

Length: 119 words

Abolition of Slavery

Master and Slave

A runaway slave is recaptured, and charged with ingratitude by the master who has taken such pains to afford him economic security.

Length: 119 words

Bible and Saints

‘What Shall I Do?’

John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ opens with Christian wondering how to convince his wife that their town and their family are in immediate danger.

Length: 115 words