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On the Sublime

Read by Amelia Chesley

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 Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

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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…

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.

Fancy Needlework

In Enquire Within Upon Everything

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Robert Kemp Philp

Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Patern…

Chapter I

In With Her in Ourland

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodic…

Ralph Cometh To the Vale of the Tower

In The Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

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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…

Book 1 Chapter 2

In British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

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Wirt Sikes

The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…

III.V. Remedies against Impatience, by way of Exercise

In The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

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Jeremy Taylor

Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was muc…