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The Ballad of the White Horse

Read by Joshua B. Christensen


G. K. Chesterton


An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihi…

Introduction and Prefaces

In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I

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John Bagnell Bury


J. B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third editi…

The Dane-Geld

In Short Poetry Collection 032

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Rudyard Kipling


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 032: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Ch. IX: The Unknown Wins - and Loses

In Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

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Edward L. Wheeler


This western, published around 1899, is a dime novel that has it all: roguish gun men, hostile Indians, chivalrous gentlemen to protect the …

Version 9

In Bill of Rights

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James Madison, United States Government and Unit


The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

01 - Perverting the Constitution

In What Prohibition Has Done to America

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Fabian Franklin


In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Bk 06: The World Below, pt 1

In The Aeneid

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Publius Vergilius Maro and Virgil


The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

Book I: The quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon

In The Iliad

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Homer, trans. Butler and Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Chapter XIV: Advantages American Society Derive From Democracy—Part I

In Democracy in America Vol. I

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville


When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …