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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…

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…

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, …

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…

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…

Clarence Darrow, Selected Works: 1893-1917

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Clarence Darrow



This is a collection of 8 works by Clarence Darrow written between 1893 and 1917. Clarence Darrow was most noted in his time as an enormousl…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

First Chapter Collection 006

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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…

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…

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