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Favourite Essays: An Anthology

Read by Neville Jason

  • Release Date: 27th Apr 2009
  • Catalogue No: NA493712
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

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Contents

Michel de Montaigne: Of Idleness

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Michel de Montaigne: Of Slow Speech

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Michel de Montaigne: That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness until After Our Death

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Francis Bacon: Of Truth

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Francis Bacon: Of Riches

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Francis Bacon: Of Wisdom

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

A Modest Proposal

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– I have already computed the charge…

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– Many other advantages might be enumerated…

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Joseph Addison: The Tombs in Westminster Abbey

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Richard Steele: – It is an inexpressible pleasure…

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

– It is an inexpressible pleasure…

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– The day of people of fashion…

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Samuel Johnson: Solitude not eligible

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Solitude not eligible

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– Others consider solitude as the parent of philosophy…

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Samuel Johnson: Good Humour

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Good Humour

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– There are many whose vanity…

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Oliver Goldsmith: On National Prejudices

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

On National Prejudices

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– Among all the famous sayings…

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David Hume: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature

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– It is also usual to compare one man with another…

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Charles Lamb: Dream Children – A Reverie

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Dream Children – A Reverie

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– Here John slyly deposited…

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Charles Lamb: Old China

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Old China

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– You are too proud to see a play anywhere…

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William Hazlitt: On Going a Journey

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On Going a Journey

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– Now I never quarrel with myself…

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– One may take one's choice…

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– To return to the question I have quitted…

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Leigh Hunt: A 'Now'

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

A 'Now'

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– Now sounds in general are dull…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: On Life

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On Life

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– What follows from the admission?

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Thomas Carlyle: Midas

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Midas

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Midas (cont.): Why dwell on this aspect of the matter?

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Ogres

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Ogres

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– Yes; they were conquered in the end…

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– I say we all of us know ogres.

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Charles Dickens: The First of May

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The First of May

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– The romance of spring…

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– Granted. We are ready to acknowledge…

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John Ruskin: The Extension of the Railways in the Lake District

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

The Extension of the Railways in the Lake District

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– The arguments in favour of the new railway…

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G.K. Chesterton: On Lying in Bed

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

On Lying in Bed

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– The tone now commonly taken…

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