Ray Clare

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Essays & Short Works

501

Hilaire Belloc - This, That, and the Other

“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, having achieved it, relax effort nor (a much greater peril) think he has done...

Ray Clare and 1 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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Essays

491

Hilaire Belloc - On Anything

Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is...

Ray Clare 7 hours 18 minutes

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534

Hilaire Belloc - French Revolution

“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the...

Ray Clare 6 hours 59 minutes

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History

513

Hilaire Belloc - Europe and the Faith

The Catholic brings to history (when I say «history» in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in the confessional accuses himself of what he knows to be true and what other people...

Ray Clare 8 hours 11 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

532

Hilaire Belloc - On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions,...

Ray Clare 6 hours 3 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

552

Hilaire Belloc - On Something

“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of...

Ray Clare 6 hours 38 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

446

Hilaire Belloc - First and Last

“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling...

Ray Clare 7 hours 27 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

478

G. K. Chesterton - Lord Kitchener

“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exceptionally a friend of Mahomedans.” (Summary quoted from Gilbert Keith...

Ray Clare 57 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

442

G. K. Chesterton - Irish Impressions

“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I think wisely, did not even know what the Irish meant by Home. Men have...

Ray Clare 4 hours 17 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

474

G. K. Chesterton - What I Saw in America

“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle...

Ray Clare 9 hours 55 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

458

G. K. Chesterton - Crimes of England

«Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the truth. Do not tell the Eskimos that snow is bright green; nor tell the negroes in...

Ray Clare 3 hours 27 minutes

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Business & Economics

465

Hilaire Belloc - Servile State

A clear boundary exists between the servile and the non-servile condition of labour, and the conditions upon either side of that boundary utterly differ one from another, Where there is compulsion applicable by...

Ray Clare 4 hours 27 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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