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  • Footpath Way An Anthology for Walkers-Hilaire Belloc

    Footpath Way An Anthology for Walkers-Hilaire Belloc
    Nov 9 2026
    Footpath Way An Anthology for Walkers by Hilaire Belloc.

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    5 ore e 39 min
  • Europe and the Faith-Hilaire Belloc

    Europe and the Faith-Hilaire Belloc
    Nov 8 2026
    Europe and the Faith by Hilaire Belloc.

    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 cannot judge, so a Catholic, talking of the united European civilization, when he blames it, blames it for motives and for acts which are his own. He himself could have done those things in person. He is not relatively right in his blame, he is absolutely right. As a man can testify to his own motive so can the Catholic testify to unjust, irrelevant, or ignorant conceptions of the European story; for he knows why and how it proceeded. Others, not Catholic, look upon the story of Europe externally as strangers.

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    8 ore e 12 min
  • On Nothing & Kindred Subjects-Hilaire Belloc

    On Nothing & Kindred Subjects-Hilaire Belloc
    Nov 7 2026
    On Nothing & Kindred Subjects by Hilaire Belloc.

    “I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree.

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    6 ore e 4 min
  • On Everything-Hilaire Belloc

    On Everything-Hilaire Belloc
    Nov 6 2026
    On Everything by Hilaire Belloc.

    Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs the range from poetry, political writings and children’s stories. He was a close friend, and sometimes collaborator with fellow Catholic G.K. Chesterton. This book is a collection of essays and other short writings on a vast array of subjects ranging from observations on the barber, the duel, reflections on war and religion. Some are in the form of drama, dialogue and letters but always engaging with wit and satire.

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    8 ore e 20 min
  • French Revolution-Hilaire Belloc

    French Revolution-Hilaire Belloc
    Nov 5 2026
    French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc.

    “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 conception that what a majority in numbers, or even (what is more compelling still) a unanimity of decision in a community may order, may not only be wrong but may be something which that community has no authority to order since, though it possesses a civil and temporal authority, it acts against that ultimate authority which is its own consciousness of right. Men may and do justly protest against the doctrine that a community is incapable of doing deliberate evil; it is as capable of such an action as is an individual.

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    7 ore
  • Servile State-Hilaire Belloc

    Servile State-Hilaire Belloc
    Nov 4 2026
    Servile State by Hilaire Belloc.

    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 positive law to men of a certain status, such compulsion enforced in the last resort by the powers at the disposal of the State, there is the institution of Slavery ; and if that institution be sufficiently expanded the whole State may be said to repose upon a servile basis, and is a Servile State.

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    4 ore e 28 min
  • On Something-Hilaire Belloc

    On Something-Hilaire Belloc
    Nov 3 2026
    On Something by Hilaire Belloc.

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    6 ore e 38 min
  • On Anything-Hilaire Belloc

    On Anything-Hilaire Belloc
    Nov 2 2026
    On Anything by Hilaire Belloc.

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    7 ore e 18 min