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Preface & Chapter 1

In Father and Son

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Edmund Gosse

Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book desc…

Preface

In Famous Men of Greece

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John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland and John Henry Haaren

Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…

Chapter LIV: Origin and Doctrine of the Paulicians Pt. I

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers - read by ELM

In Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers

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Jonathan Swift

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers by Jonathan Swift. This was the weekly poetr…

Ch 26: "The First Speech"

In Phineas Finn the Irish Member

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Anthony Trollope

Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…

28 - LETTER XXVIII. Mr. Villars to Lady Howard

In Evelina

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Frances Burney

In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her un…