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The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

Read by Amelia Chesley


Leonard Cox


This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of t…

On the Sublime

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Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell and Translated Byherbert Lord Havell


This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…

The City of Din

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Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie


A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

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Angelina Emily Grimké


This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.

Brief Hints To Observers Of Eclipses Of the Sun

In The Story of Eclipses

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George F. Chambers


Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing …

Winter Amidst of the Mountains

In The Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End

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William Morris


In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) wit…

Niagara's Rainbow

In Gleams of Sunshine

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Joseph Horatio Chant


This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Chu…

Where There is Love; There is God also

In Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

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Leo Tolstoy


Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; s…

O Come All Ye Faithful

In Christmas Carol Collection 2017

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Frederick Oakeley


LibriVox volunteers bring you a festive selection of 22 Christmas carols for the 2017 holiday. This year's collection includes traditional f…

The Manner of the Nights

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Chapter VI: Savoury Dishes - Mushrooms

In Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery

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Arthur Gay Payne


This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only slowly gaining popularity in England at the time of its publication in 1891…