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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.

Part II Chapter XIII: End of the War-Return Home

In The Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 1

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Edward Tyas Cook

A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of he…

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…

A Fallen Yew

In Poems

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Francis Thompson

This is the first volume of poems published by the English poet Francis Thompson. It also includes his most famous poem, The Hound of Heaven…

Finis

In Short Poetry Collection 166

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E. E. Cummings

This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2017.

Preface

In Woodstock, or, The Cavalier

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Sir Walter Scott

This novel is set during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. It is comprised of real events, along with fictional ones. If you are l…