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Title: The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
Author: Various
Release Date: November 27, 2004 [EBook #14182]
Language: English
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORLD'S BEST ORATIONS, ***

Produced by Kent Fielden
THE WORLD'S BEST ORATIONS, Vol. 1 (of 10)
THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke. Bart., Member of
Parliament--Author of 'Greater Britain,' etc., London, England.
William Draper Lewis, PH. D., Dean of the Department of Law,
University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
William P. Trent, M.A., Professor of English and History, Colombia
University, in the city of New York.
W. Stuart Symington, Jr., PH. D., Professor of the Romance Languages,
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
Alcee Fortier, Lit.D., Professor of the Romance Languages,

Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
William Vincent Byars, Journalist, St Louis, Mo.
Richard Gottheil, PH. D., Professor of Oriental Languages,

Columbia University, in the city of New York.
Austin H. Merrill, A.M., Professor of Elocution, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn.
Sheldon Jackson. D. D., LL. D., Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.
A. Marshall Elliott, PH.D. LL. D., Professor of the Romance Languages,

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
John W. Million, A.M., President of Hardin College, Mexico, Mo.
J. Raymond Brackett. PH. D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts,

and Professor of Comparative Literature, University Of
Colorado, Boulder, Colo.
W. F. Peirce. M.A., LL. D., President Of Kenyox College, Gambier,
Ohio.
S. Plantz, PH.D., D. D., President of Lawrence University,
Appleton, Wis.
George Tayloe Winston, LL.D., President of the University Of Texas,
Austin, Texas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. I
Preface: Justice David J. Brewer
The Oratory Of Anglo-Saxon Countries: Prof. Edward A. Allen
ABELARD, PIERRE 1079-1142

The Resurrection of Lazarus
The Last Entry into Jerusalem
The Divine Tragedy

ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS 1807-1886
The States and the Union
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, JUNIOR 1835-
The Battle of Gettysburg

ADAMS, JOHN 1735-1826
Inaugural Address
The Boston Massacre

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY 1767-1848
Oration at Plymouth Lafayette The
Jubilee of the Constitution

ADAMS, SAMUEL 1722-1803
American Independence

AELRED 1109-1166
A Farewell
A Sermon after Absence
On Manliness

AESCHINES 389-314 B. C.
Against Crowning Demosthenes
AIKEN, FREDERICK A. 1810-1878
Defense of Mrs. Mary E, Surratt

ALBERT THE GREAT (ALBERTUS MAGNUS) 1205-1280
The Meaning of the Crucifixion
The Blessed Dead

ALLEN, ETHAN
A Call to Arms
AMES, FISHER 1758-1808
On the British Treaty
ANSELM, SAINT 1032-1109
The Sea of Life
ARNOLD, THOMAS 1795-1842
The Realities of Life and Death
ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN 1830-1886
Inaugural Address
ATHANASIUS 298-373
The Divinity of Christ
AUGUSTINE, SAINT 354-430
The Lord's Prayer
BACON, FRANCIS 1561-1626
Speech against Dueling
BARBOUR, JAMES 1775-1842
Treaties as Supreme Laws

BARNAVE, ANTOINE PIERRE JOSEPH MARIE 1761-1793
Representative Democracy against Majority Absolutism
Commercial Politics

BARROW, ISAAC 1630-1677
Slander
BASIL THE GREAT 329-379
On a Recreant Nan
BAXTER, RICHARD 1615-1691
Unwillingness to Improve

BAYARD. JAMES A. 1767-1815
The Federal Judiciary
Commerce and Naval Power

BAYARD, THOMAS F. 1828-1898
A Plea for Conciliation in 1876
BEACONSFIELD, LORD 1804-1881
The Assassination of Lincoln
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