Passages From the Great Books
Primary Sources
Cicero, Selection from On Duties.
Cicero, Selections from "On Friendship."
Livy: Stories from the Roman Republic
Horace: Ode IV: 15
Augustus: Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Augustine: Selection from the Confessions (Pick Up and Read)
Einhard's Life of Charlemagne
How Guibert's Eyes Were Restored
William Fitz-Stephens Description of London
Machiavelli's Letter to Franceso Vettori
Machiavelli's The Prince, Abridged
Machiavelli's Discourses, "On Regime Types"
Juan Gines de Sepulveda: On the Just War With the Indians
Bartolommeo de las Casas: Response to Sepulveda
The Spiritual Ecstasies of Saint Teresa
Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615
James I: The Divine Right of Kings
Henry Goodcole: The Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer as a Witch
John Locke: Selections From the Second Treatise
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Robespierre: On Terror and Liberty
Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, Abridged
Frederick Douglass: What to a Slave is the Fourth of July, 1852.