FIRST AND LAST
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FIRST AND LAST (ebook)

HILAIRE BELLOC

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OTBEBOOKPUBLISHING
ISBN:
9783965371422
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Epublication content package
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Inglés
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Si

Excerpt: "One day I met a man who was sitting quite silent near Whitney, in the Thames Valley, in a very large, long, low inn that stands in those parts, or at least stood then, for whether it stands now or not depends upon the Fussyites, whose business it is to Fuss, and in their Fussing to disturb mankind."

Otros libros del autor

  • MR. BELLOC STILL OBJECTS TO MR. WELL'S "OUTLINE OF HISTORY"
    HILAIRE BELLOC
    Excerpt: "Mr. H. G. WELLS brought out some time ago an Outline of History, the object of which was to deny the Christian religion. I examined this production for the benefit of my co-religionists in the columns of certain Catholic papers. I did full justice to Mr. Wells’s talents as a writer, but I exposed his ill acquaintance with modern work on Biology, with early Christian w...

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  • MARIE ANTOINETTE
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    Marie Antoinette is a biography written by Hilaire Belloc that focuses on the life of the French queen, Marie Antoinette. The book provides an in-depth look at the queen's upbringing, political career, and personal life, including her marriage to King Louis XVI, the French Revolution, and her eventual execution by guillotine. The author uses a variety of historical sources to p...

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  • THIS AND THAT AND THE OTHER
    HILAIRE BELLOC
    Wonderful, especially if you enjoy G. K. Chestertons way of potting truths in the soil of whimsical or satirical short stories. (Goodreads) ...

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  • VERSES
    HILAIRE BELLOC
    Excerpt: "A poet may write pleasingly about mountains, and cyclones, and battles, and the love of woman, but if he is at all timid about the verdict of posterity he should avoid the theme of childhood as he would avoid the plague. For only great poets can write about childhood poems worthy to be printed. Hilaire Belloc has written poems about children, and they are worthy to be...

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  • ON
    HILAIRE BELLOC
    Excerpt: "Mumbo-Jumbo is that department in the ruling of men which is made of dead, false, apparatus; unreasonable; contemptible to the free; unworthy of authority—and Mumbo-Jumbo is the most necessary ingredient in all government. All government is by persuasion. Odd it is that so many do not yet see this! Perhaps not so odd after all; for words trick the mind, and the words ...

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  • THE MODERN TRAVELLER
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    Hillaire Belloc's fully illustrated collection of poems. His best travel writing has secured a permanent following. ...

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