Author of Audiobooks - Hilaire Belloc
This, That, and the Other - Hilaire Belloc
This, That, and the Other - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, having achieved it, relax effort nor (a much greater peril) think he has done his work because some Fame now...
On Something - Hilaire Belloc
On Something - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of music, we smell the smell that...
The Free Press - Hilaire Belloc
The Free Press - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Political Science
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and in putting power into ignoble hands; its correction by the formation of small independent organs, and the...
Europe and the Faith - Hilaire Belloc
Europe and the Faith - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: History / Christianity - Other
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,...
On Anything - Hilaire Belloc
On Anything - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays
Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is told, an old and crusty woman of...
The Servile State - Hilaire Belloc
The Servile State - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Business & Economics / Political Science
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...
The French Revolution - Hilaire Belloc
The French Revolution - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
“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...
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects - Hilaire Belloc
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical...
First and Last - Hilaire Belloc
First and Last - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling round, he sees the wind getting...
On Everything - Hilaire Belloc
On Everything - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
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...
The Green Overcoat - Hilaire Belloc
The Green Overcoat - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This rollicking novel captures the minor moral dilemma of thin, shy, nervous, Professor Higginson, psychologist, as he comes under the eye of the enemy of his soul through an encounter with a green overcoat. The quixotic adventure that follows will...
Verses - Hilaire Belloc
Verses - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
On - Hilaire Belloc
On - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Hilaire Belloc, 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...