Front Matter Moses David, King of Israel Solomon Lycurgus Themistocles Pericles Socrates Diogenes Demosthenes Aristotle Archimedes Marcus Tullius Cicero Augustus Caesar St. Ambrose St. Augustine of Hippo St. Patrick Justinian the Great St. Augustine of Canterbury Mahomet Alfred the Great John Huss Louis XI, of France Isabella of Castille Nicholas Copernicus Martin Luther Letter from Luther to his son Charles V of Germany John Calvin John Knox Elizabeth, Queen of England Francis Bacon Galileo Galilei Cardinal Richelieu William Bradford Charles I of England Letter from Charles I to his son Oliver Cromwell Frederick, the Great Elector Louis XIV, of France William Penn William III, of England Isaac Newton Peter the Great Maria Theresa Edmund Burke Benjamin Franklin Patrick Henry George Washington Letter from Washington to his adopted daughter John Adams Letter from Adams to a friend Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton Count de Mirabeau Maximilien Robespierre Jean Henri Pestalozzi Georges Cuvier Alexander von Humboldt Daniel O\'Connell Simon Bolivar Jean Francois Champollion Andrew Jackson Daniel Webster Letter from Webster to a friend Willaim Henry Seward Abraham Lincoln Horace Greeley Louis Agassiz Charles Darwin Louis Adolphe Thiers Leon Gambetta Benjamin Disraeli William Ewart Gladstone Prince von Bismarck Charles Steward Parnell William McKinley Grover Cleveland