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The Moravians in Jamaica

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J. H. Buchner


The United Brethren's Church (also known as the Moravians) , were invited to the Island of Jamaica by the Foster-Barhams in 1754.Spanning a …

Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 2: Luther on Sin and the Flood

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Martin Luther


In his "Dear Genesis" Luther proved that the free Evangelical religion he taught was not new, but as old as the first book of the …

The Emotions

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James McCosh and James Mccosh


I am not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred…

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…

The Book of the Cheese

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Thomas Wilson Reid


"Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" is a pub on Fleet Street, London. It was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, and has been frequented …

Lydia is gone this many a year

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Lizette Woodworth Reese


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of 'Lydia is gone this many a year' by Lizette Woodworth Reese. This was the Fortnightly Poetry …

Cupid's Darts

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Anonymous


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Cupid's Darts by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 12, 2012.To celeb…

A Ruined Reversolet

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C. J. Dennis


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Ruined Reversolet by C. J. Dennis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 28, 2012.…

The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

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William Graham Sumner


Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…

Joseph and his Brethren

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W. K. Tweedie


"The story of Joseph is at once so simple that childhood is arrested and rivetted by it, and so profound that sages may deepen their wi…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092

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Various


Calling men the "Bawling Brotherhood," Sarah Grand penned a lively essay on The New Aspect of the Woman Question in 1894. Stenogra…

North America Vol. 1

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Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861 he travelled through…

The Outermost House

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Henry Beston


A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod - Summary by subtitle

Cana

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James Freeman Clarke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Cana by James Freeman Clarke, from The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman. This was …

A Parting Guest

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.…

The City of Din

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Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie


A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

Entertaining Made Easy (Version 2)

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Emily Rose Burt


A handy book of ideas for parties, weddings, and wedding showers. - Summary by MaybeCordelia

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090

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Various


In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…

Among the Head-hunters of Formosa

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Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern


"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…

At Broad Ripple

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of At Broad Ripple by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the fortnightly poetry project for September…

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