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A Year with the Birds

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W. Warde Fowler


William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

The Astral Plane: Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena

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C. W. Leadbeater


Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public dema…

William Blake

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G. K. Chesterton


From the author’s introduction: "Blake’s life of Blake … would have been full of symbolic wild beasts and naked women, of monstrous cl…

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

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Wilkie Collins


Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the…

Practical Mysticism (Version 2)

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Evelyn Underhill


I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…

Orthodoxy (Version 3)

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G. K. Chesterton


… [In] its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state t…

Robert Browning (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

A Christmas Sermon

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2022

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Robert Louis Stevenson


The 2022 Christmas collection brings some old favourites along with some new selections, from the traditional to the bizarre. Among the sele…

The Owl-Critic

In Short Poetry Collection 208

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James Thomas Fields


This is a collection of 67 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2020.

Letter X - Mesmerism

In Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein

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Herbert Mayo


"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…

Book 4, Chapters 21 to 34

In On Benefits (De Beneficiis)

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


De Beneficiis (English: On Benefits) is one of the moral essays composed by Seneca, Roman author of the 1st century CE. It deals with Stoic …

Chapter 7 - An Adequate Theory of Education

In Home Education Series Vol. III: School Education

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Charlotte Mason


This is third volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: School Educatio…

Culmination of the Power of Burgundy, Treaty of Péronne (AD 1468) by P.F. Wille…

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

05 Identity of electricities

In Faraday As A Discoverer

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John Tyndall


This is the first of two related Faraday projects. It is about Faraday and deals more with biographical references to Faraday, outlining the…

The Divine Use of Shame

In David and His Friends: A Series of Revival Sermons

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Louis Albert Banks


This is a collection of thirty-one revival sermons, all of which were preached in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, Ohio, dur…