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The Philippics

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivere…

Arduous Years In The Central West

In Edison, His Life and Inventions

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Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

School for Scandal, The, Act I Scene ii

In James Joyce in Context, Vol. 1: Telemachus

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

This is a project invented and created by LibriVox volunteers. It collects various works which James Joyce quotes and refers to in his epic…

Book 1, Part 1

In The Annals Vol 1

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Tacitus - Church/Brodribb and Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…

12 - Book 1, Ch 23-24

In The Wars of the Jews

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Josephus and Flavius Josephus

The Wars of the Jews (or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, or as it usually appears in modern English translations, The Jewish Wa…

Episode 6, Chapter 5

In The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 2

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Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…