A Selection from the

World's Great Orations

EDITED BY

SHERWIN CODY

A SELECTION FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES. 18mo. $1.00 net.

A SELECTION FROM THE BEST ENGLISH ESSAYS. 18mo. $1.00

net.

THE BEST POEMS AND ESSAYS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. 18mo. $1.00 net.

THE BEST TALES OF EDGAR

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the WORLD'S GREAT

ORATIONS

ILLUSTRATIVE of the HISTORY OF ORA-
TORY and the ART of PUBLIC SPEAKING

CHOSEN AND EDITED WITH
A SERIES OF INTRODUCTIONS

By SHERWIN

CODY

EDITOR OF "THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES,'
"THE BEST ENGLISH ESSAYS," AND "THE BEST TALES AND
BEST POEMS AND ESSAYS OF POE," AND AUTHOR OF "THE
ART OF WRITING AND SPEAKING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Contents

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Preface

General Introduction

I. DEMOSTHENES: "On the Crown" (in part).

Translated by the Editor .

II. CICERO: "I am a Roman Citizen" (from

the Oration against Verres). Translated

by the Editor

III. SAVONAROLA:

"I bring you good News";

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"The Sea of Politics"; Lazarus Come

Forth".

IV. BOSSUET:

Funeral Oration of Henriette of

England (in part). Translated by the Editor

V. MIRABEAU: The Right of Declaring War

(second oration)

VI. CHATHAM: Taxing America

VIL BURKE: On American Taxation (abridged);

Impeachment of Warren Hastings (pero-

ration); Marie Antoinette (paragraph)

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VIII. GRATTAN : Declaration of Irish Rights

IX. CURRAN: The Press (libel case)

X. SHERIDAN: "The Desolation of Oude";

"Filial Piety"; "Justice" (from oration

on the Begums in the trial of Warren

Hastings).

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