Hilaire Belloc

The French Revolution

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Hilaire Belloc



“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both c…

The Servile State

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Hilaire Belloc



A clear boundary exists between the servile and the non-servile condition of labour, and the conditions upon either side of that boundary ut…

Europe and the Faith

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Hilaire Belloc



The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in…

The Free Press

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I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and i…

The Green Overcoat

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This rollicking novel captures the minor moral dilemma of thin, shy, nervous, Professor Higginson, psychologist, as he comes under the eye o…

This, That, and the Other

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“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, h…

First and Last

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“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the c…

On Anything

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Hilaire Belloc



Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days…

On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

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“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were …

On Something

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“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a…

On Everything

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Hilaire Belloc



Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs…

Verses

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A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs. - Summary by Larry Wilson

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Hilaire Belloc, French by birth, British by naturalization, was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs th…

The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers

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This 1911 anthology is a collection of musings on the pleasures, challenges, and experience of walking. It features some famous authors (Tho…

The Road

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"We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traf…