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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Page 14
... asking him to come over . Blackwood was pulled over in a boat to the Victory . Nelson asked the Victory's captain - his dearest friend , Thomas Hardy - to come in . Nelson asked the two of them to witness his signature to his will ...
... asking him to come over . Blackwood was pulled over in a boat to the Victory . Nelson asked the Victory's captain - his dearest friend , Thomas Hardy - to come in . Nelson asked the two of them to witness his signature to his will ...
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... asked the expected question - by what authority he was being tried . England , he said , had never been an elective kingdom ; he was monarch not by election but by inheritance , and to acknowledge a usurped authority would be a betrayal ...
... asked the expected question - by what authority he was being tried . England , he said , had never been an elective kingdom ; he was monarch not by election but by inheritance , and to acknowledge a usurped authority would be a betrayal ...
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... asked whether the jury by their interposition had meant that they had satisfied themselves solely upon that portion of the case which related to the tattoo marks , or whether they had formed their opinion on the whole case . The jury asked ...
... asked whether the jury by their interposition had meant that they had satisfied themselves solely upon that portion of the case which related to the tattoo marks , or whether they had formed their opinion on the whole case . The jury asked ...
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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