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Ingersoll on VOLTAIRE
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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…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…
Toxophilus
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Roger Ascham
Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argum…
Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
In November 1774, Norfolk native Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia. He came under the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, and indeed it…
There Was a Cherry-Tree
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James Whitcomb Riley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…
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
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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…
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
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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
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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…
Sermons Preached on Various Occasions
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John Henry Newman
What language do the human heart and soul speak? Many would say they speak poetry and song. But what if reason and spirituality join heart…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
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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…
Vlaemsche Dichtoefeningen
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Guido Gezelle
De bundel Vlaemsche Dichtoefeningen bevat 52 gedichten. Het is vooral eigen werk van Guido Gezelle, en hiernaast ook enkele vertalingen. Het…
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…
Twenty Years of the Republic
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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…
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
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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…
First Chapter Collection
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Various
The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we off…