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COPYRIGHT, 1900,
BY THE COLONIAL PRESS.
9-14-36 m. & Mrs. W. C.
Johnson Gift
CONTENTS
PAGE
WILLIAM PITT
I
On His Refusal to Negotiate With Bonaparte.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
Discourse Before the Literary Society of Bombay.
GEORGE CANNING
3
55
57
71
On Granting Aid to Portugal.
73
DANIEL O'CONNELL
93
On the Rights of Catholics.
95
Protest Against Sentence as a Traitor..
Discourse.
The Immortality of the Soul.
ROBERT EMMET
LORD BROUGHAM (HENRY PETER BROUGHAM).
Inaugural
THOMAS CHALMERS
God's Sympathy for Man..
LORD PALMERSTON (HENRY JOHN TEMPLE)
Arbitration
SIR ROBERT PEEL
Speech at Tamworth.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL
The Church of Ireland.
THE EARL OF DERBY (EDWARD HENRY SMITH STANLEY)
Life and Culture....
JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL NEWMAN.
RICHARD COBDEN
107
109
117
119
139
141
155
157
169
171
177
179
203
205
221
223
231
On the Effects of Protection..
233
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER LYTTON)... 257
DEAN STANLEY (ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY).
Funeral Oration on Lord Palmerston..
413
415
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LORD SALISBURY (ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNE CECIL).
CANON FARRAR (FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR)
Funeral Oration on General Grant..
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The Substance of Sermons.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN
The Future of the British Empire.
LORD ROSEBERY (ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE)
Oration on Robert Burns........
LORD CHURCHILL (RANDOLPH HENRY SPENCER CHURCHILL)..
Desertion of General Gordon......
HENRY DRUMMOND
The Greatest Thing in the World..
......
425
427
447
449
457
459
465
467
473
475
483
485
495
497
ILLUSTRATIONS
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
Photogravure from a photograph
FAUNUS
Photo-engraving from a marble bust
EARLY VENETIAN PRINTING
Fac-simile of a Roman Missal, printed at Venice in 1520
PAGE FROM A BOOK OF HOURS.
Fac-simile example of Printing and Engraving in the Fifteenth Century
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