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LABORI, MAITRE FERNAND

The conspiracy against Dreyfus

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM

The house divided against itself

Interrogating Douglas

On John Brown

The Gettysburg address

Second inaugural address

His speech before death

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ZOLA, ÉMILE

His appeal for Dreyfus

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PREFACE

JUSTICE DAVID J. BREWER

THE ORATORY OF ANGLO-SAXON COUNTRIES

PROF. EDWARD A. ALLEN

ABÉLARD, PIERRE

The Resurrection of Lazarus

The Last Entry into Jerusalem

The Divine Tragedy

ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS

The States and the Union

ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, JUNIOR

The Battle of Gettysburg

ADAMS, JOHN

Inaugural Address

The Boston Massacre

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY

Oration at Plymouth

Lafayette

The Jubilee of the Constitution

ADAMS, SAMUEL

American Independence

ÆLFRED

A Farewell

A Sermon after Absence

On Manliness

ÆSCHINES

Against Crowning Demosthenes

AIKEN, FREDERICK A.

Defense of Mrs. Mary E. Surratt

ALBERT THE GREAT (ALBERTUS MAGNUS)

The Meaning of the Crucifixion

The Blessed Dead

ALLEN, ETHAN

A Call to Arms

AMES, FISHER

On the British Treaty

ANSELM, SAINT

The Sea of Life

ARNOLD, THOMAS

The Realities of Life and Death

ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN

Inaugural Address

ATHANASIUS

The Divinity of Christ

AUGUSTINE, SAINT

The Lord's Prayer

BACON, FRANCIS

Speech against Dueling

BARBOUR, JAMES

Treaties as Supreme Law

BARNAVE, ANTOINE PIERRE JOSEPH MARIE

Representative Democracy against Majority Absolutism

Commercial Politics

BARROW, ISAAC

Slander

BASIL THE GREAT

On a Recreant Nun

BAXTER, RICHARD

Unwillingness to Improve

BAYARD, JAMES A.

The Federal Judiciary

Commerce and Naval Power

BAYARD, THOMAS F.

A Plea for Conciliation in 1876

BEACONSFIELD, LORD

The Assassination of Lincoln

Against Democracy for England

The Meaning of «Conservatism»

BEDE, THE VENABLE

The Meeting of Mercy and Justice

A Sermon for Any Day

The Torments of Hell

BEECHER, HENRY WARD

Raising the Flag over Fort Sumter

Effect of the Death of Lincoln

BELHAVEN, LORD

A Plea for the National Life of Scotland

BELL, JOHN

Against Extremists, North and South

Trans-Continental Railroads

BENJAMIN, JUDAH P.

Farewell to the Union

Slavery as Established by Law

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BENTON, THOMAS H.

The Political Career of Andrew Jackson

Against the United States Bank

«There is East: there is India»

ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Preaching the Crusade

Advice to Young Men

Against Luxury in the Church

On the Canticles

BERRIEN, JOHN M.

Conquest and Territorial Organization

Effect of the Mexican Conquest

BERRYER, PIERRE ANTOINE

Censorship of the Press

BINGHAM, JOHN A.

Against the Assassins of President Lincoln

BISMARCK

A Plea for Imperial Armament

BLACK, JEREMIAH S.

Corporations under Eminent Domain

BLAINE, JAMES G.

Oration on Garfield

BLAIR, AUSTIN

Military Government

BLAIR, FRANCIS PRESTON

The Character and Work of Benton

The Deathbed of Benton

On the Fifteenth Amendment

BLAND, RICHARD P.

The Parting of the Ways

BOLINGBROKE, LORD

Misfortune and Exile

Patriotism

BONAVENTURA, SAINT

The Life of Service

BOSSUET, JACQUES BÉNIGNE

Funeral Oration over the Prince of Condé

BOUDINOT, ELIAS

The Mission of America

BOURDALOUE, LOUIS

The Passion of Christ

BOUTWELL, GEORGE S.

President Johnson's «High Crimes and Misdemeanors»

BRECKENRIDGE, JOHN C.

The Dred Scott Decision

BRIGHT, JOHN

Will the United States Subjugate Canada?

Morality and Military Greatness

BROOKS, PHILLIPS

Lincoln as a Typical American

Power over the Lives of Others

BROOKS, PRESTON S.

The Assault on Sumner

BROUGHAM, LORD

Against Pitt and War with America

Closing Argument for Queen Caroline

BROWN, B. GRATZ

A Prophecy

BROWN, HENRY ARMITT

One Century's Achievement

The Dangers of the Present

The Plea of the Future

BROWNLOW, WILLIAM GANNAWAY

The Value of the American Union

Grape Shot and Hemp

BRYAN, WILLIAM J.

The «Cross of Gold»

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN

The Greatness of Burns

BUCHANAN, JAMES

Inaugural Address

BUNYAN, JOHN

The Heavenly Footman

BURGES, TRISTAM

The Supreme Court

BURKE, EDMUND

Opening the Charge of Bribery against Hastings

Against Coercing America

Principle in Politics

Marie Antoinette

BURLINGAME, ANSON

Massachusetts and the Sumner Assault

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BUSHNELL, HORACE

The Dignity of Human Nature

BOWLER, BENJAMIN F.

Article Ten (Argument Impeaching Andrew Johnson)

BUTLER, JOSEPH

The Government of the Tongue

CÆSAR, CAIUS JULIUS

On the Conspiracy of Catiline

CAHILL, DANIEL W.

The Last Judgment

CAIRD, JOHN

The Art of Eloquence

CALHOUN, JOHN C.

Against the Force Bill

Denouncing Andrew Jackson

Replying to Henry Clay

Self Government and Civilization

Individual Liberty

CALVIN, JOHN

The Necessity for Courage

CAMBON, PIERRE JOSEPH

The Crisis of 1793

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER

Mind the Master Force

CANNING, GEORGE

England in Repose

Christianity and Oppression

Hate in Politics

CARLYLE, THOMAS

The Edinburgh Address

The Heroic in History

CARNOT, LAZARE NICOLAS MARGUERITE

Against Imperialism in France

CARPENTER, MATTHEW HALE

Replying to the Grand Duke Alexis

The Louisiana Returning Board

In Favour of Universal Suffrage

CARSON, ALEXANDER

The Glories of Immortality

CARSON, HAMPTON L.

American Liberty

CASS, LEWIS

American Progress and Foreign Oppression

CASTELAR, EMILIO

A Plea for Republican Institutions

In the Campo Santo of Pisa

CATO UTICENSIS

Against the Accomplices of Catiline

CAVOUR, CARILLO BENSO, COUNT DI

Rome and Italy

CHALLEMEL-LACOUR, PAUL WAND

Humboldt and the Teutonic Intellect

CHALMERS, THOMAS

When Old Things Pass Away

War and Truth

The Use of Living

CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH

Manhood Suffrage

CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH

On Jefferson Davis

CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY

The Man Above the State

CHAPIN, EDWIN HUBBELL

The Sovereignty of Ideas

Peaceful Industry

The Source of Modern Progress

Scientia Liberatrix

Rectitude Higher Than Morality

CHASE, SALMON P.

Thomas Jefferson and the Colonial View of Manhood Rights

Three Great Eras

CHÂTEAUBRIAND, FRANÇOIS RENÉ, VISCOUNT DE

Has One Government the Right to Intervene in the Internal Affairs of Another?

CHATHAM, WILLIAM, VISCOUNT PITT AND EARL OF

The Attempt to Subjugate America

The English Constitution

His Last Speech

CHAUNCY, CHARLES

Good News from a Far Country

CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF

Against Revenues from Drunkenness and Vice

CHEVES, LANGDON

In Favor of a Stronger Navy

CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM

False Pretenses

CHOATE, JOSEPH HODGES

«Farragut»: An Address at the Unveiling of the Saint-Gaudens Statue

CHOATE, RUFUS

Books and Civilization in America

The Necessity of Compromises in American Politics

Heroism of the Early Colonists

CHRYSOSTOM, SAINT JOHN

The Blessing of Death

The Heroes of Faith

Avarice and Usury

CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER

The Age of Action

Gladstone's Egyptian Inconsistencies

CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS

The First Oration Against Catiline

Catiline's Departure

The Crucifixion of Gavius

Supernatural Justice

Cato and the Stoics

For the Poet Archias

The Fourth Philippic

CLARK, CHAMP

The Courage of Leadership

CLAY, CASSIUS M.

A Rhapsody

Aspirations for the Union

America as a Moral Force

CLAY, CLEMENT C.

The Subtreasury Bill

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CLAY, HENRY

Dictators in American Politics

On the Expunging Resolutions

On the Seminole War

The Emancipation of South America

The American Systems and the Home Market

In Favor of a Paternal Policy of Internal Improvements

For «Free Trade and Seamen's Rights»

The Greek Revolution

The Noblest Public Virtue

Sixty Years of Sectionalism

CLAYTON, JOHN M.

The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and «Expansion»

Justice the Supreme Law of Nations

CLEMENS, JEREMIAH

Cuba and «Manifest Destiny»

CLEON

Democracies and Subject Colonies

CLEVELAND, GROVER

First Inaugural Address

CLINTON, DE WITT

Federal Power and Local Rights

Against the Military Spirit

COBB, HOWELL

«Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!»

COBBETT, WILLIAM

The Man on the Tower

COBDEN, RICHARD

Free Trade with All Nations

Small States and Great Achievements

COCKRAN, WILLIAM BOURKE

Answering William J. Bryan

COKE, SIR EDWARD

Prosecuting Sir Walter Raleigh

COLERIDGE, JOHN DUKE

The Sacredness of Matrimony

COLFAX, SCHUYLER

The Confiscation of Rebel Property

CONKLING, ROSCOE

Nominating General Grant for a Third Term

The Stalwart Standpoint

Against Senator Sumner

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN

Free Speech Necessary for Good Government

COOK, JOSEPH

Ultimate America

CORBIN, FRANCIS

Answering Patrick Henry

CORWIN, THOMAS

Against Dismembering Mexico

COUSIN, VICTOR

Eloquence and the Fine Arts

Liberty an Inalienable Right

The Foundations of Law

True Politics

COX, SAMUEL SULLIVAN

Against the Iron-Clad Oath

The Sermon on the Mount

Stephen A. Douglas and His Place in History

CRANMER, THOMAS

His Speech at the Stake

Against the Fear of Death

Forgiveness of Injuries

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM HARRIS

The Issue and Control of Money under the Constitution

CRISPI, FRANCESCO

At the Unveiling of Garibaldi's Statue

CRITTENDEN, JOHN JORDAN

Henry Clay and the Nineteenth-Century Spirit

Against Warring on the Weak

CROCKETT, DAVID

A Raccoon in a Bag

CROMWELL, OLIVER

Debating Whether or Not to Become King of England

CULPEPER, SIR JOHN

Against Monopolies

CURRAN, JOHN PHILPOT

In the Case of Justice Johnson — Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests

For Peter Finnerty and Free Speech

The Diversions of a Marquis

Against Pensions

England and English Liberties — In the case of Rowan

The Liberties of the Indolent

His Farewell to the Irish Parliament

On Government by Attachment

CURTIS, BENJAMIN ROBBINS

Presidential Criticisms of Congress

CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM

His Sovereignty Under His Hat

Wendell Phillips as a History-Maker

CUSHING, CALEB

The Primordial Rights of the Universal People

England and America in China

The Extermination of the Indians

CYPRIAN

Unshackled Living

CYRIL

The Infinite Artifices of Nature

DALLAS, GEORGE M.

«The Pennsylvania Idea»

DAMIANI, PETER

The Secret of True Greatness

New Testament History as Allegory

DANIEL, JOHN W.

At the Dedication of the Washington Monument

Was Jefferson Davis a Traitor?

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DANTON, GEORGE JACQUES

«To Dare, to Dare Again; Always to Dare»

«Let France Be Free, Though My Name Were Accursed»

Against Imprisonment for Debt

Education, Free and Compulsory

Freedom of Worship

«Squeezing the Sponge»

DAVIS, DAVID

On Appeal from the Caucus

DAVIS, HENRY WINTER

Reasons for Refusing to Part Company with the South

Constitutional Difficulties of Reconstruction

DAVIS, JEFFERSON

Announcing the Secession of Mississippi

Inaugural Address of 1861

Against Clay and Compromise

DAVITT, MICHAEL

Ireland a Nation, Self-Chartered and Self-Ruled

DAWES, HENRY LAURENS

The Tariff Commission of 1880

DAYTON, WILLIAM L.

Arraigning President Polk

Issues Against Slavery Forced by the Mexican War

DEMOSTHENES

The Oration on the Crown

The Second Olynthiac

The Oration on the Peace

The Second Philippic

DEPEW, CHAUNCEY M.

The Columbian Oration

Liberty Enlightening the World

The Military Spirit in America

England and America Since the Spanish War

Poetry and Politics in Britain

DERBY, THE EARL OF

The Emancipation of British Negroes

DERING, SIR EDWARD

For the Encouragement of Learning

Religious Controversy in Parliament

DESEZE, RAYMOND

Defending Louis XVI.

DESMOULINS, CAMILLE

Live Free or Die

D'EWES, SIR SIMON

The Antiquity of Cambridge

DEWEY, ORVILLE

The Genius of Demosthenes

The Rust of Riches

DEXTER, SAMUEL

The «Higher Law» of Self-Defense**

DIAZ, PORFIRIO

Mexican Progress

DICKERSON, MAHLON

The Alien and Sedition Acts of the Adams Administration

DICKINSON, DANIEL S.

Rebuking Senator Clemens of Alabama

DICKINSON, JOHN

The Declaration on Taking Up Arms

DIDON, PÈRE

Christ and Higher Criticism

DIGBY, GEORGE, LORD

«Grievances and Oppressions» Under Charles I.

The Army in Domestic Politics

DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH, BART .

America

Omphalism

DIX, JOHN A.

Christianity and Politics

DOD, ALBERT B.

The Value of Truth

DONNE, JOHN

Man Immortal, Body and Soul

DOOLITTLE, JAMES R.

The Attitude of the West in the Civil War

In Favor of Re-Union

DORSET, THE EARL OF

In Favor of Slitting Prynne's Nose

DOUCHERTY, DANIEL

«Hancock the Superb»

DOUGLAS, FREDERICK

A Plea for Free Speech in Boston

DOUGLAS, STEPHEN A.

Reply to Lincoln

«Expansion» and Co-operation with England

Kansas and «Squatter Sovereignty»

The John Brown Raid

The Issues of 1861

DOW, LORENZO, JUNIOR

Improvement in America

Hope and Despair

DRAKE, CHARLES D.

Against «Copperheads»

DRUMMOND, HENRY

The Greatest Thing in the World

Preparation for Learning

A Talk on Books

DWIGHT, TIMOTHY

The Pursuit of Excellence

EDMUNDS, GEORGE F.

The Constitution and the Electoral Commission

EDWARDS, JONATHAN

Eternity of Hell Torments

Wrath Upon the Wicked to the Uttermost

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

ELIOT, SIR JOHN

On the Petition of Right

ELLSWORTH, OLIVER

Union and Coercion

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO

The Greatness of a Plain American

The American Scholar

Man the Reformer

Uses of Great Men

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EMMET, ROBERT

His Protest Against Sentence as a Traitor

ERSKINE, THOMAS LORD

Against Paine's

«Dominion Founded on Violence and Terror»

Homicidal Insanity

In Defense of Thomas Hardy

Free Speech and Fundamental Rights

EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL

The Weakest Spot of the American System

EVERETT, EDWARD

The History of Liberty

The Moral Forces which Make American Progress

On Universal and Uncoerced Co-operation

FALKLAND, LUCIUS, LORD

Ship-Money — Impeaching Lord Keeper Finch

FARRAR, FREDERICK WILLIAM

Funeral Oration on General Grant

FÉNELON, FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE

Simplicity and Greatness

Nature as a Revelation

FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY

In Re Milligan — Martial Law as Lawlessness

In the Case of McCardle — Necessity as an Excuse for

Tyranny

The Cost of «Blood and Iron»

FINCH, SIR HENEAGE

Opening, the Prosecution for Regicide under Charles II.

FISHER, JOHN

The Jeopardy of Daily Life

FLAXMAN, JOHN

Physical and Intellectual Beauty

FLÉCHIER, ESPRIT

The Death of Turenne

FOX, CHARLES JAMES

On the Character of the Duke of Bedford

On the East India Bill

Against Warren Hastings

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN

Disapproving and Accepting the Constitution

Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy

FRELINGHUYSEN, FREDERICK THEODORE

In Favor of Universal Stage

GALLATIN, ALBERT

Constitutional Liberty and Executive Despotism

GAMBETTA, LEON

France After the German Conquest

GARFIELD, JAMES ABRAM

Revolution and the Logic of Coercion

The Conflict of Ideas in America

GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD

«Beginning a Revolution»

On the Death of John Brown

The Union and Slavery

Speech at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865

GAUDET, MARGUERITE ÉLIE

Reply to Robespierre

GIBBONS, JAMES CARDINAL

Address to the Parliament of Religions

GIDDINGS, JOSHUA REED

Slavery and the Annexation of Cuba

GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART

The Fundamental Error of English Colonel Aggrandizement

Home Rule and «Autonomy»

The Commercial Value of Artistic Excellence

Destiny and Individual Aspiration

The Use of Books

On Lord Beaconsfield

GOTTHEIL, RICHARD

The Jews as a Race and as a Nation

GRADY, HENRY W.

The New South and the Race Problem

GRATTAN, HENRY

Against English Imperialism

Invective Against Corry

Unsurrendering Fidelity to Country

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS

Eulogy on Basil of Cæsarea

GRIMSTONE, SIR HARBOTTLE

«Projecting Canker Worms and Caterpillars»

GUIZOT, FRANÇOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME

Civilization and the Individual Man

GUNSAULUS, FRANK W.

Healthy Heresies

HALE, EDWARD EVERETT

Boston's Place in History

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER

The Coercion of Delinquent States

HAMILTON, ANDREW

In the Case of Zenger — For Free Speech in America

HAMPDEN, JOHN

A Patriot's Duty Defined

HANCOCK, JOHN

Moving the Adoption of the Constitution

The Boston Massacre

HARE, JULIUS CHARLES

The Children of Light

HARRISON, BENJAMIN

Inaugural Address

HARRISON, THOMAS

His Speech on the Scaffold

HARPER, ROBERT GOODLOE

Defending Judge Chase

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HAYES, RUTHERFORD B.

Inaugural Address

HAYNE, ROBERT YOUNG

On Foot's Resolution

HAZLITT, WILLIAM

On Wit and Humor

HECKER, FREDERICK KARL FRANZ

Liberty in the New Atlantis

HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON

The Mystery of Creation

HENRY, PATRICK

«Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death»

«We the People» or «We the States?»

«A Nation, — Not a Federation»

The Bill of Rights

Liberty or Empire?

HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON

The Meaning of Inspiration

HILDEBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF TOURS

Rebecca at the Well

HILL, BENJAMIN HARVEY

«A Little Personal History»

HOAR, GEORGE FRISBIE

The Great Men of Massachusetts

HOLBORNE, SIR ROBERT

In Defense of John Hampden

HOUSTON, SAMUEL

On His Defeat as a Union Candidate

His Defense at the Bar of the House

HUGHES, THOMAS

The Highest Manhood

HUGO, VICTOR

Oration on Honoré de Balzac

The Liberty Tree in Paris

On the Centennial of Voltaire's Death

Moral Force in World Politics

HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY

The Threefold Unity of Life

HYDE, EDWARD, EARL OF CLARENDON

«Discretion» as Despotism

In John Hampden's Case

INDIAN ORATORS

TECUMSEH — Address to General Proctor

LOGAN — Speech on the Murder of His Family

OLD TASSEL — His Plea for His Home

WEATHERFORD — Speech to General Jackson

RED JACKET — Missionary Effort

INGALLS, JOHN J.

The Undiscovered Country

INGERSOLL, ROBERT G.

Blaine, the Plumed Knight

Oration at His Brother's Grave

A Picture of War

The Grave of Napoleon

The Imagination

Life

ISOCRATES

{Areopagiticus} — «A Few Wise Lairs Wisely Administered»

JACKSON, ANDREW

Second Inaugural Address — State Rights and Federal Sovereignty

JAY, JOHN

Protest against Colonial Government

JEFFERSON, THOMAS

«Jeffersonian Democracy» Defined

JEKYLL, SIR JOSEPH

Resistance to Unlawful Authority

JOHNSON, ANDREW

Inaugural Address

The St. Louis Speech for which He Was Impeached At Cleveland in 1866

KING, RUFUS

For Federal Government by the People

KINGSLEY, CHARLES

Human Soot

KNOTT, J. PROCTOR

The Glories of Duluth

KNOX, JOHN

Against Tyrants

KOSSUTH, LOUIS

Local Self-Government

LABORI, MAITRE FERNAND

The Conspiracy against Dreyfus

LACORDAIRE, JEAN BAPTISTE HENRI

The Sacred Cause of the Human Race

Rationalism and Miracles

LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS

The Revolution of 1848

LANSING, JOHN

Answering Alexander Hamilton

LARDNER, DIONYSIUS

The Plurality of Worlds

LATIMER, HUGH

Duties and Respect of Judges

The Sermon of the Plover

On the Pickings of Officeholders

LAURIER, SIR WILFRID

The Character and Work of Gladstone

Canada, England, and the United States in 1899

LEE, HENRY

Funeral Oration for Washington

LEE, RICHARD HENRY

Address to the People of England

LEIGHTON, ROBERT

Immortality

LENTHALL, WILLIAM

Opening the Long Parliament under Charles I.

LEWIS, DAVID, BISHOP OF LLANDAFF

His Speech on the Scaffold

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM

The House Divided against Itself

Interrogating Douglas

On John Brown

The Gettysburg Address

Second Inaugural Address

His Speech before Death

LIVINGSTON, ROBERT R.

Wealth and Poverty, Aristocracy and Republicanism

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL

The Poetical and the Practical in America

Pope and His Times

LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN

The Hundred Best Books

LUTHER, MARTIN

Address to the Diet at Worms

«The Pith of Paul's Chief Doctrine»

LYNDHURST, LORD

Russia and the Crimean War

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LYSIAS

Against Eratosthenes for Murder

LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER, BARON

Demosthenes and the Nobility of the Classics

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, BARON

The Literature of England Popular Education

A Tribute to the Jews

Consent or Force in Government

MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXANDER

On the Treaty of Washington

Prerogative and Public Right

MCKINLEY, WILLIAM

American Patriotism

At the Dedication of the Grant Monument

MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES

Canada and the Autonomy of British Colonies

Peltier and the French Revolution

MADISON, JAMES

State Sovereignty and Federal Supremacy

MANNING, HENRY EDWARD, CARDINAL

«Rome the Eternal»

MANSFIELD, WILLIAM MURRAY, EARL OF

In the Case of John Wilkes

In the Case of the Dean of St. Asaph

A Reply to the Earl of Chatham

MARSHALL, JOHN

Opposing Patrick Henry

MARSHALL, THOMAS F.

National Power and the American Peace Policy

MARTIN, LUTHER

Is the Government Federal or National?

MASON, GEORGE

«The Natural Propensity of Rulers to Oppress»

MASSILLON, JEAN BAPTISTE

The Curse of a Malignant Tongue

MATHER, COTTON

At the Sound of the Trumpet

MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE

To the Young Men of Italy

MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS

«The Withering Influence of Provincial Subjection»

MELANCHTHON, PHILIP

The Safety of the Virtuous

MILLER, HUGH

The Pledge Science Gives to Hope

MILTON, JOHN

A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing

MIRABEAU, GABRIEL HONORÉ RIQUETTI, COMTE DE

On Necker's Project — «And Yet You Deliberate»

Defying the French Aristocracy

Against the Establishment of Religion

Announcing the Death of Franklin

«Reason Immutable and Sovereign»

Justifying Revolution

His Defense of Himself

MONROE, JAMES

«Federa1 Experiment in History»

MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES, COMTE DE

For Freedom of Education

Devotion to Freedom

«Deo et Cæsari Fidelis»

MONTGOMERY, JAMES

Modern English Literature

MOODY, DWIGHT L.

On Daniel and the Value of Character

MORE, SIR THOMAS

His Speech when on Trial for Life

MORLEY, JOHN

The Golden Art of Truth-Telling

MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR

Oration at the Funeral of Alexander Hamilton

MORTON, OLIVER P.

Reasons for Negro Suffrage

MÜLLER, MAX

The Impassable Barrier between Brutes and Man

NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL

Property as a Disadvantage

O’CONNELL, DANIEL

Ireland Worth Dying For

Demanding Justice

OTIS, HARRISON GRAY

Hamilton's Influence on American Institutions

OTIS, JAMES

For Individual Sovereignty and against «Writs of Assistance»

PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, VISCOUNT

On the Death of Cobden

Against War on Ireland

PARKER, THEODORE

Daniel Webster after the Compromise of 1850

PARNELL, CHARLES STEWART

His First Speech in America

Against Nonresident Landlords

PEEL, SIR ROBERT

On the Repeal of the Corn Laws

A Plea for Higher Education

PENDLETON, EDMUND

Liberty and Government in America

PENN, WILLIAM

The Golden Rule against Tyranny

PERICLES

On the Causes of Athenian Greatness

PHILLIPS, CHARLES

The Dinas Island Speech on Washington

PHILLIPS, WENDELL

John Brown and the Spirit of Fifty-Nine

PINKNEY, WILLIAM

On the First Issues of Civil War

PITT, WILLIAM

Against French Republicanism

England’s Share in the Slave Trade

PLUNKETT, WILLIAM CONYNGHAM PLUNKETT, BARON

Prosecuting Robert Emmet

POE, EDGAR ALLAN

The Love of the Beautiful in Speech

POTTER, HENRY CODMAN

Washington and American Aristocracy

PRENTISS, SEARGEANT SMITH

On New England's «Forefathers' Day»

PULTENEY, WILLIAM

Against Standing Armies

PYM, JOHN

Grievances against Charles I.

Law as the Safeguard of Liberty

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THE ORATOR'S TRAINING IN AMERICA

WILLIAM SCHUYLER, A.M.

QUINCY, JOSIAH

Lenity of the Law to Human Infirmity

QUINCY, JOSIAH, JUNIOR

At the Second Centennial of Boston

Against the Conquest of Canada

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER

His Speech on the Scaffold

RANDOLPH, EDMUND

Defending Aaron Burr

RANDOLPH, JOHN

«Blifil and Black George — Puritan and Blackleg»

Against Protective Tariffs

REED, THOMAS B.

The Immortality of Good Deeds

REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA

Genius and Imitation

ROBERTSON, FREDERICK W.

The Highest Form of Expression

ROBESPIERRE

Against Capital Punishment

«If God Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Him»

His Defense of Terrorism

Moral Ideas and Republican Principles

Demanding the King's Death

At the Festival of the Supreme Being

His Last Words

ROYER-COLLARD, PIERRE PAUL

«Sacrilege» in Law

Against Press Censorship

RUMBOLD, RICHARD

Against Booted and Spurred Privilege

RUSKIN, JOHN

Iscariot in Modern England

RUSSELL, LORD JOHN

Science and Literature as Modes of Progress

RUTLEDGE, JOHN

A Speech in Time of Revolution

SAURIN, JACQUES

The Effect of Passion

SCHLEGEL, KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON

The Philosophy of History

SCHURZ, CARL

Public Offices as Priorate Perquisites

SENECA

His Address to Nero

SEWARD, WILLIAM H.

The Irrepressible Conflict

Reconciliation in 1865

SHEIL, RICHARD LALOR

Ireland's Part in English Achievement

In Defense of Irish Catholics

SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY

Closing Speech against Hastings — The Hoard of the Begums of Oude

On the French Revolution

Patriotism and Perquisites

The Example of Kings

SHERMAN, JOHN

The General Financial Policy of the Government

SIDNEY, ALGERNON

His Speech on the Scaffold — «Governments for the People, and Not the People for Governments»

SMITH, GERRIT

Liberty Destroyed by National Pride

SMITH, GOLDWYN

The Lamps of Fiction

The Origin and Causes of Progress

The Secret beyond Science

SMITH, SYDNEY

Mrs. Partington in Politics

The Results of Oppression

Reform and Stomach Troubles

«Wounds, Shrieks, and Tears» in Government

SOCRATES

Address to His Judges after They Had Condemned Him

SPURGEON, CHARLES HADDON

Everlasting Oxydization

STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN

Palmerston and the Duty of England

STEPHENS, ALEXANDER H.

The South and the Public Domain

On the Confederate Constitution