"Essay by Robert Fraser, Open University"

"Naipaul is essentially a writer of discovery. He tries on occasion to look into the past through the eviden…"

"If I have to hire a labourer for a week, and instead of ten shillings I pay him eight, no variation having …"

"We think of the world as containing particular things some of which are independent of ourselves; we think …"

"And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?"

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"If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called D…"