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Chapter LVII: Milton - Sight and Growth

In English Literature for Boys and Girls

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …

Demosthenes Wishes to Become an Orator

In The Story of Greece: Told to Boys and Girls

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Mary Esther Miller Macgregor

A retelling of Greek myths, history and stories aimed at children.

John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top

In How They Succeeded

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Orison Swett Marden

Success! Alluring, fascinating, informative. Why are some people successful while others languish on the scrap heap of life? Hard work? Luc…

The Dew Mother's Gift to the Rose

In The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature

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Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner

A book compiling stories, legends, and poems about summer and nature, piquing reader's interests by appealing to the reader's fancy, quicken…

John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, Part 1

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers

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Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

Vivo de Zamenhof

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Edmond Privat

Vivo de Zamenhof estas biografio pri L. L. Zamenhof, verkita de Edmond Privat. Ĝi aperis unuafoje en 1920, dua eldono sekvis en 1923. Titolo…

Let a Sailor Stick to Her Deck

In The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise

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Victor G. Durham

Captain Jack Benson and Hal Hastings have been sailing in torpedo submarines a while now. But, there is new danger that they will have to g…

Dido in the Bakery

In Dido, the Dancing Bear: His Many Adventures

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Richard Barnum

One of the Kneetime Animal Stories for children, Dido the Dancing Bear may seem unethical today, but when it was written in 1916, such spect…

Divers Tales 25: Snaking

In Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short parables, published under the pen name of Dod Grile, is similar to Aesop's Fables. This compilation is …

Alarm Clocks - Read by NF

In Alarm Clocks

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Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (191…