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The Fisher’s Boy read by Leon Mire

In The Fisher's Boy

Read by Leon Mire


Henry David Thoreau


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of the Fisher’s Boy by Henry David Thoreau. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Dirge for Two Veterans read by Leon Mire

In Dirge for Two Veterans

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Walt Whitman


In celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of Dirge for Two Vetera…

Bible (WEB) NT 18: Philemon

Read by Leon Mire


World English Bible


While in prison, Paul writes this letter to another Christian, Philemon. Paul has met with and converted a man named Onesimus, probably a r…

Stoicism

Read by Leon Mire


St. George William Joseph Stock


This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the gene…

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Read by Leon Mire


David Hume


In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, philosopher David Hume examines whether belief in God can be rational. The work takes the form of …

Bible (WEB) NT 10: Ephesians

Read by Leon Mire


World English Bible


Paul writes to the church at Ephesus, beginning with a praise to God for the forgiveness of their sins and for choosing them in His grace. P…

Aphorisms 22 - 40

In The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

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Epictetus


Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.

The Oath and Law of Hippocrates, Charles Eliot, Editor

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002

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Hippocrates; Charles Eliot, editor and Hippocrates


A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

Discipline

In The Montessori Method

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Maria Montessori


In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori…

Demonic Spanish

In First Fifty Digits of Pi

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Scott Hemphill


56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infin…

Non-Euclidean Geometries

In Science and Hypothesis

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Henri Poincaré


Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…

Chapter XIII, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter traces the history of the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, including the reaction of the country's religious parties, the insta…

A Mighty Fortress is Our God (translated by Frederick Henry Hedge)

In Hymns of the Christian Church

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Martin Luther


A collection of classic Christian hymns spanning the centuries. Some LibriVox volunteers read the hymns; others sung them. (Summary by Leon…

The Transition from Cell to Human Being

In Sex

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Henry Stanton


Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although conservative and moralistic) gu…

Book Five, Sections I-IV

In Politics

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Aristotle (tr. Jowett) and Aristotle


The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle exp…