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The app claims that nothing in it was written by us or by a machine. This is the page that lets you check. Every one of the 25 works below is an English translation published between 1838 and 1907, by one of 16 named translators, and every row links to the public-domain edition the text was taken from. Open any of them and read the same words.
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Select Demonstrations
Aphrahat · translated by John Gwynn, 1898
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The Life of Antony
Athanasius of Alexandria · translated by Henry Ellershaw, 1892
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The Confessions of Augustine
Augustine of Hippo · translated by E. B. Pusey, 1838
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The Hermits
Charles Kingsley · translated by Charles Kingsley, 1868
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Hymns for the Epiphany
Ephraim the Syrian · translated by John Gwynn, 1898
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Hymns on the Nativity
Ephraim the Syrian · translated by John Gwynn, 1898
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The Nisibene Hymns
Ephraim the Syrian · translated by John Gwynn, 1898
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The Pearl
Ephraim the Syrian · translated by John Gwynn, 1898
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Three Homilies
Ephraim the Syrian · translated by John Gwynn, 1898
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On Virginity
Gregory of Nyssa · translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson, 1892
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The Book of Pastoral Rule
Gregory the Great · translated by James Barmby, 1895
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The Fathers of the Desert
Henry Ruffner · translated by Henry Ruffner, 1850
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The Wisdom of the Desert
James Owen Hannay · translated by James Owen Hannay, 1904
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The Letters of Jerome
Jerome · translated by W. H. Fremantle, 1893
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The Lives of the Hermits
Jerome · translated by W. H. Fremantle, 1893
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The Conferences
John Cassian · translated by Edgar C. S. Gibson, 1894
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The Institutes
John Cassian · translated by Edgar C. S. Gibson, 1894
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Letters of Consolation
John Chrysostom · translated by W. R. W. Stephens, 1889
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On the Priesthood
John Chrysostom · translated by W. R. W. Stephens, 1889
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The Church of the Fathers
John Henry Newman · translated by John Henry Newman, 1840
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The Paradise of the Holy Fathers
Palladius and the elders of Egypt · translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, 1907
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Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts
Richard Challoner · translated by Richard Challoner, 1852
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The Dialogues of Sulpitius Severus
Sulpitius Severus · translated by Alexander Roberts, 1894
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The Life of St. Martin
Sulpitius Severus · translated by Alexander Roberts, 1894
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The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis · translated by William Benham, 1886