Books with author William Tyndale

This translation of the New Testament into English from its original Greek was printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled back into England. It therefore escaped the fate of Tyndale’s previous version, which had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities. The 1534 edition outraged the clerical establishment by giving the laity access to the word of God, in print in English for the first time. Tyndale, who was already in exile for political reasons, was hunted down and subsequently burned at the stake for blasphemy.For the next eighty years―the years of Shakespeare among others―Tyndale’s masterly translation formed the basis of all English bibles. And when the authorized King James Bible was published in 1611, many of its finest passages were taken unchanged, though unacknowledged, from Tyndale’s work.Although, therefore, this astounding work of pioneering scholarship was the basis of all subsequent English bibles until after the Second World War, and though it was the version of the Bible used by some of our greatest poets, it is today virtually unknown because of its suppression for political reasons because of its difficult early sixteenth-century spelling.Now for the first time this version is published in modern spelling, as the modern book it once was, so that this masterly work of English prose by one of the great geniuses of the as is available to today’s reader.

This volume was published in 1900 and is a series of short sketches of statesmen, military captains, orators, jurists, preachers, men of literature, etc. George Washington Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson Henry Lee James Monroe John Marshall James Madison John Sevier Andrew Jackson Peter Cartwright John Pendleton Kennedy Edgar Allan PoeHenry Clay John C. Calhoun John Randolph Robert Y. Hayne Thomas H. Benton Sam Houston William Henry Harrison John Tyler George F. Pierce John Bell John B. McFerrin James K. Polk Roger B Taney Zachary Taylor David Crockett Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Enoch M. Marvin William E. Munsey Alexander H. Stephens Paul H. Hayne Henry Timrod Augusta Evans Wilson Andrew Johnson Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Albert Taylor BledsoeHenry Watterson George W. Cable Holland N. McTyeire Sidney Lanier Mary Murpree Joel Chandler Harris James Lane Allen From the book's Introductory:The most enlarging of all studies is the study of human history, and all history is at bottom only biography. It was with this view that the editor of the Children' s Visitor, in which the following sketches first appeared, arranged for their preparation. Mr. Will T. Hale, who has acquired a national reputation for both his prose and poetic writings, was chosen to do the work on account of his genius for historic treatment, combined with a broad and generous spirit, which was a guaranty against any offensive sectionalism.It was deemed wise to establish such a series as that which bears the title "Great Southerners" for the purpose of more accurately informing our children and young people touching those men who in various life works have reflected credit upon the land which gave them birth.