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...religions and the different sects of the Christian religion. Against each other you’d end up at the end of the day with a sense of the palpable absurdity of the whole business, of the sense the way you believe was effectively a function of where your were brought up and as a result of this that they would end up philosophically in the position that Owen himself was in....

...La Coruna, but his army was safely evacuated by sea, while Portugal and southern Spain remained unsubdued. Napoleon returned to Paris to deal with the threat from Austria, leaving the Spanish question unresolved. By January 1809 France's casualties in the Peninsular War exceeded her losses in all of Napoleon's campaigns in Europe hitherto. British forces returned to the...

...religion in Hardy’s work. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A233 Telling stories – the novel and beyond...Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the possibilities of third-person narration recognise the role of dialogue in creating...

...dan enw’r dôn, ‘Cwm Rhondda’, neu’r llinell gyntaf ‘Guide me, O thou great Jehovah’) er mwyn tanlinellu rhai o’r heriau hanesyddol yma. Yn un o hoff emynau cefnogwyr rygbi, cyfieithiad Saesneg o’r emyn ‘Arglwydd, arwain trwy’r anialwch’ gan William Williams, Pantycelyn (1717-91), emynydd enwocaf Cymru yw ‘Guide me, O thou great Jehovah’....