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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Stories of Achievement,
Volume III (of 6), by Various, Edited by Asa Don Dickinson
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Title: Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6)
Orators and Reformers
Author: Various
Editor: Asa Don Dickinson
Release Date: June 15, 2006 [eBook #18597]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES OF ACHIEVEMENT,
VOLUME III (OF 6)***
E-text prepared by Al Haines
[Frontispiece: Henry Ward Beecher]
STORIES OF ACHIEVEMENT
EDITED BY
ASA DON DICKINSON
Orators and Reformers

DESMOSTHENES
ELIHU BURRITT
JOHN B. GOUGH
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
HENRY WARD BEECHER
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
BEN. B. LINDSEY

GARDEN CITY \u2014\ue000 NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1925

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In the preparation of this volume the publishers have received from several houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copyright material. For this they wish to express their cordial gratitude. In particular, acknowledgments are due to the Houghton Mifflin Company for the extract concerning Elihu Burritt; to George W. Jacobs & Co. for the extract from Booker T. Washington's "Frederick Douglass"; to P. B. Bromfield for permission to use passages from "The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher"; to the late Booker T. Washington for permission to reprint extracts from "Up From Slavery"; to Judge Ben. B. Lindsey for permission to reprint from "The Beast."

CONTENTS
ORATORS AND REFORMERS
DEMOSTHENES
The Orator Who Stammered
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