Leaves from My Library: An English AnthologyLeaves 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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... England should try him with a jury of commissioners . But the Lords rejected the proposal : On January 1 , 1649 , the remnant of the Commons , now the obedient satellites of the army , passed an ordinance to set up a high court of ...
... England should try him with a jury of commissioners . But the Lords rejected the proposal : On January 1 , 1649 , the remnant of the Commons , now the obedient satellites of the army , passed an ordinance to set up a high court of ...
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... England approved . Cromwell was most popular throughout all the country . He could have made himself King . But he did not . Buchan thinks he should have done : England would have had again that mystic and indivisible centre of national ...
... England approved . Cromwell was most popular throughout all the country . He could have made himself King . But he did not . Buchan thinks he should have done : England would have had again that mystic and indivisible centre of national ...
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... England ? Charles II died on 6 February 1685 after a lingering illness . According to Lord Macaulay : He apologised to those who had stood round him all night for the trouble which he had caused . He had been , he said , a most ...
... England ? Charles II died on 6 February 1685 after a lingering illness . According to Lord Macaulay : He apologised to those who had stood round him all night for the trouble which he had caused . He had been , he said , a most ...
Contents
England expects Lord Nelson | 13 |
The death of a king John Buchan | 34 |
The Great Proconsul Lord Macaulay | 50 |
Copyright | |
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