Long novel e-books (over 3h to read) of Hilaire Belloc

PREFACE The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution: that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books.

[Illustration: Hebrew text] Constable & Company, Limited London Bombay Sydney First Published 1922 Second Impression 1922 To MISS RUBY GOLDSMITH MY SECRETARY FOR MANY YEARS AT K...

AMORE ANTIQUI RITUS, ALTO SUB NUMINE ROMAE' PRAISE OF THIS BOOK To every honest reader that may purchase, hire, or receive this book, and to the reviewers also (to whom it is of triple profit)...

INTRODUCTION THE CATHOLIC CONSCIENCE OF HISTORY I say the Catholic "conscience" of history--I say "conscience"--that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is...

CHAPTER I ENTITLED _AL-RAFSAT_, OR THE KICK In the days of Abd-er-Rahman, who was among the wisest and most glorious of the Commanders of the Faithful, there resided in the City of Bagdad an eld...

36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON * * * * * DEDICATION TO THE OTHER MAN MR PHILIP KERSHAW _There were once two men.

BY H. BELLOC DEDICATION _To Somebody_ CONTENTS A PLEA FOR ...

CHAPTER I CHARLES I.--_continued_.

On Weighing Anchor Personally I should call it "Getting It up," but I have always seen it in print called "weighing anchor"--and if it is in print one must bow to it.