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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…

Part 4

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

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James Boswell

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…

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.

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.

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.…

England Under the Good Saxon, Alfred

In A Child's History of England

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Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in th…

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…

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,…

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…