Leaves from My Library: An English AnthologyButterworths, 1986 - 256 halaman Leaves from my Library is a unique anthology of English prose which Lord Denning has himself chosen from his library at his country home at Whitchurch. The scenes are many and varied, ranging from the trial of the Merchant of Venice to that of the Knave of Hearts from the decks of Nelson's Victory to the drawing rooms of Jane Austen from the Pilgrims' gathering at the Tabard Inn to Sir Winston Churchill addressing a nation at war. |
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... passed through an agonising week , must not blind us to the fact that what has happened in France and Belgium is a colossal military disaster . The French Army has been weakened , the Belgian Army has been lost , a large part of those ...
... passed through an agonising week , must not blind us to the fact that what has happened in France and Belgium is a colossal military disaster . The French Army has been weakened , the Belgian Army has been lost , a large part of those ...
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... passed by the Commons . ... The Lords passed the bill on May 8th ; Strafford urged the king to assent to it in the interests of peace , and Charles , renouncing his plighted word , accepted the sacrifice . The doomed man met death with ...
... passed by the Commons . ... The Lords passed the bill on May 8th ; Strafford urged the king to assent to it in the interests of peace , and Charles , renouncing his plighted word , accepted the sacrifice . The doomed man met death with ...
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... passed a new act by a majority of six , which arrogated to a single House the legislative power . ( The journals of the House of Commons record that on the 4th ' a resolution was passed that , since the people were the origin of all ...
... passed a new act by a majority of six , which arrogated to a single House the legislative power . ( The journals of the House of Commons record that on the 4th ' a resolution was passed that , since the people were the origin of all ...
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England expects Lord Nelson | 13 |
The death of a king John Buchan | 34 |
The Great Proconsul Lord Macaulay | 50 |
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