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Former President of Harvard University Charles W. Eliot wrote in his introduction to the Harvard Classics, "In my opinion, a five-foot shelf would hold books enough to give a liberal education to any one who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading." Here you are, you can easily listen to his entire 15-minutes-a-day study guide while commuting to and from work (most of us spend far more than 15 minutes a day commuting each day), doing mundane work in the office, washing dishes at home, or doing most of the things day in and day out. It is so easy, so entertaining, and so educational that they can be listened to again and again, until they permeate into our own thinking and into our characters. Perhaps, in one year's time, you will become someone you barely recognize, all for the better. Who knows?
-- Rich E Book
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Sep 12, 2021
Sep 12, 2021
3 min
Introductory note on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (The Ridpath's Library of Universal Literature)
Sep 12, 2021
Sep 12, 2021
19 min
In all literary history there is no happier love story than that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. During their secret courtship Miss Barrett sent Browning many beautiful love letters written in verse. (Volume 41, Harvard Classics)
Browning married Elizabeth Barrett, Sept. 12, 1846.
Sep 11, 2021
Sep 11, 2021
Sep 11, 2021
17 min
What regulates wages, on what do they depend? Adam Smith, world's authority on economic problems, advances his theories on these matters. (Volume 10, Harvard Classics)
Sep 11, 2021
Sep 11, 2021
Sep 11, 2021
6 min
One of America's famous New Englanders, Oliver Wendell Holmes, devoted his life principally to medicine. His name, however, was made famous through his poem, "Old Ironsides," by which he saved America's most famous battleship from destruction when her fighting days were ended. (Volume 42, Harvard Classics)
Sep 9, 2021
Sep 9, 2021
Sep 9, 2021
22 min
"There are days during the year," says Emerson, "when the world of nature reaches perfection." Can anyone escape this call, especially in the glorious Indian Summer? (Volume 5, Harvard Classics)
Emerson retires from the ministry, Sept. 9, 1832.
Sep 8, 2021
Sep 8, 2021
Sep 8, 2021
24 min
There was a time when the snow fell and did not melt in summer. Then from the frozen north there descended huge masses of ice that covered northern Europe and most of North America. Glaciers reveal a new world to us. (Volume 30, Harvard Classics)
Helmholtz died Sept. 8, 1894.