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Chapters 16 - 20

In Pep: Poise, Efficiency, Peace

Read by J A Carter


Col. William Crosbie Hunter and William C. Hunter


Colonel William Crosbie Hunter was a businessman and self-help writer who was moderately popular in the early 20th century. His books set fo…

Uphill - Read by JAC

In Uphill

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Christina Rossetti


Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with vers…

The Reigate puzzle

In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devise…

Introduction and Preface

In English as She is Spoke

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Pedro Carolino


English as She is Spoke is a 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrasebook that has become a classic of absurdist humor, owing chiefly to th…

Book 5, Chapters 4-7

In Against Heresies

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Irenaeus


St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, describes several schools of Gnosticism which were prevalent among pre-Nicene Christianity. He then refutes t…

Preface

In Bible (TCNT) NT 01-27: The New Testament

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Twentieth Century New Testament


Published in 1904, The Twentieth Century New Testament is considered the first translation of the Bible into modern English. It was produced…

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