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Chapter 03

In Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 2 Maccabees

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Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) and Douay-Rheims Version


The Book of 2 Machabees (more commonly rendered 2 Maccabees) is an abridgement of another work, now lost, which describes the events surroun…

Preface to the Second Edition, Prologue

In Calculus Made Easy

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Silvanus P. Thompson


Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying …

07 - Chapter 7

In The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy

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Barbara Hofland


The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy (1829) Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if he …

BALDNESS AND INTELLECTUALITY

In The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

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Eugene Field


Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibl…

Frederic Harrison on Atheism

In Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

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George William Foote


The Freethinker, founded in 1881 was one of the first secular humanist magazines, and also one of the oldest surviving one, moving online on…

A Wraith of Summertime - Read by AH

In A Wraith of Summertime

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Wraith of Summertime by James Whitcomb Riley.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Octobe…

The Book of Three Worthies: Part III -- The Story of Sir Gawaine, Chapter Second

In The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

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Howard Pyle


Masterful artist, illustrator, and storyteller Howard Pyle brings new life to the legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.…

Colonel Mulberry Sellers by Mark Twain

In Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2

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Mark Twain


Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

Parables of the Cross

In Parables of the Cross

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Isabella Lilias Trotter


Death is the Gate of Life. There was deep insight in those old words. For man's natural thought of death is that of a dreary ending in deca…

Fancies about a Rosebud, Pressed in an old Copy of Spenser

In Early Poems

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James Russell Lowell


This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…

A Parting Guest - Read by AH

In 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.…

3 - Part 3

In De Profundis (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde


This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and cha…

Departed Days – Read by AH

In Departed Days

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Oliver Wendell Holmes and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Departerd Days by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2011.O…

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