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In Their Words: Original Documents, Poetry, Stories, and Hymns from World History

by Ray Notgrass (Editor), Charlene Notgrass (Editor), John Notgrass (Editor)

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Includes text covering 1750 BC-1787 AD. Contains excerpts from the Code of Hammurabi, Homer's Odyssey, Analects of Confucius, Twelve Tables of Roman Law, Xenephon's Cyropaedia, Plato's Republic, Letter to Digonetus, Bede's History of the Primitive Church of England, Magna Carta, Praise of Folly, Martin Luther's Speech Before the Diet of Worms, English Bill of Rights, Two Treatises of Goverbment by Locke, and US Declaration of Independence. Contains hymns by Clement of Alexandria, Ambrose of Milan, Synesius of Cyrene, Columba, Andrew of Crete, Bede, King Alfred, Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis of Assisi, Louis IX, Thomas Ken, Isaac Watts, Joseph Addison, William Cowper, Charles Wesley, John Newton, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Rudyard Kipling. Also contains some Fables of Aesop, the Funeral Oration of Pericles, two versions of the Hippocratic Oath, Letters between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan, Edict of Milan, Everyman, Columbus' Journal Introduction from Voyage 1, 95 Theses by Luther, 1 Corinthians 13 as translated by Tyndale, Calvin's Introduction to Institutes of the Christian Religion, Sonnet XVIII by Shakespeare, Holy Sonnet 10 by Donne, On His Blindness by Milton, Newton's Preface to Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Gray's "On the Death of a Favourite Cat..." and "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Burns' "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough" and "A Red, Red Rose", Blake's "Lamb", the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Wordsworth's #7 from Moods of My Own Mind, "Grimm's "Wolf and the Seven Little Kids", Judson's Rules of Holy Living, Andersen's Elderbush, Sonnet XLII by Browning, Rallying Speech by Garibaldi, Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade, Real Faith by Muller, If by Kipling, Stevenson's Requiem, Hopkins' Pied Beauty, Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, and Reagan's Evil Empire and Tear Down This Wall Speech.
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