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Ideas of duration and expansion, considered together

In An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

Read by Jeremy Robertson

John Locke

John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes th…

29 - Book 3, Chapter 4 - Hope Born of Spring

In The Mermaid

Read by Jeremy Robertson

Lily Dougall

"'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid …

Ten and Eight

In Happy Days

Read by Jeremy Robertson

A. A. Milne

Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightl…

Michael Robartes asks Forgiveness because of his many moods

In The Wind Among the Reeds

Read by Jeremy Robertson

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from a…

Buttercup Queen

In Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise

Read by R. Robertson

Lucy Lane Clifford and Lucy Clifford

A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her l…

Goliah, Part I

In Revolution, and other Essays

Read by Jeremy Robertson

Jack London

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why Lon…

The Story of Blackie

In Daisy: the Autobiography of a Cat

Read by Andrew Robertson

Miranda Elliot Swan

"I was born in a clothes-basket, and do not feel ashamed of my birthplace, though fire and the swill man long ago removed all trace of …

Leviathan and the Air Pump: Thirty Years On

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Ritchie Robertson, David Wootton and Michael Hunter

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Ode To Duty, by William Wordsworth

In Famous Poems: A New Anthology Of Lyrics And Ballads

Read by Samantha Anne Robertson

Various

A collection of famous poems by various authors who wrote during the period 1550 to 1892, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth…

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