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Rousseau and Education According to Nature

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Thomas Davidson


In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086

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Various


"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…

The British Isles and the Baltic States

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Frank G. Carpenter


Another in a long series by the author focusing on the British Isles and a few chapters on Germany, Poland and other countries of the Baltic…

Down the Bayou

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Mary Ashley Townsend


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Down the Bayou by Mary Ashley Townsend. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 27th…

The Angler

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Thomas Buchanan Read


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Angler by Thomas Buchanan Read. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 29th, …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082

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Various


"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 084

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Various


Ghosts everywhere, and of any colour," was the promise of Spectropia, a book of "surprising spectral illusions" published in …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 087

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Various


"Certitude is not the test of certainty." This pithy phrase is from Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr's essay on Natural Law, one of…

Lands of the Caribbean

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Frank G. Carpenter


The author ventures to the islands of the Caribbean for yet another volume in his travel series. This time we visit the countries of Panama,…

Nocturne

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Nocturne by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2011.Aldrich…

Ingersoll on VOLTAIRE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture…

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 18

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Various


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Autumn

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John Clare


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Autumn by John Clare . This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 17th, 2010.

The Flag and the Faithful

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William J. Lampton


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Flag and the Faithful by William J. Lampton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Janua…

The Bookman, March 1921

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John Farrar


This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is J…

Twenty Years of the Republic 1885-1905

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Harry Thurston Peck


Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole gene…

Some American Storytellers

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Frederic Taber Cooper


Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the tur…

Banking Under Difficulties

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George Ogilvy Preshaw


An account of life on the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand by a Bank Official.At the present time—1888—it may appear…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

The Silver Swan

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Orlando Gibbons


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2011.Or…

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