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The World’s Famous Orations

William Jennings Bryan, Editor-in-Chief
Francis W. Halsey, Associate Editor

Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces by 213 rhetoricians. Selected under the supervision of the greatest orator of his time, these brief persuasive addresses form both a window into history’s turning points as well as a timeless collection for any reference shelf.
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CONTENTS
Bibliographic Record Preface Introduction Index to Authors
NEW YORK: FUNK AND WAGNALLS, 1906
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2003

Greece (432 B.C.-324 B.C.)

• Homer: Achilles’ Reply to the Envoys
• Pericles: I. In Favor of the Peloponnesian War | II. On Those Who Died in the War | III. In Defense of Himself
• Cleon: On the Punishment of the Mytileneans
• Alcibiades: I. In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily | II. To the Spartans
• Nicias: Against the Sicilian Expedition
• Hermocrates: On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders
• Lysias: Against Eratosthenes
• Socrates: I. In His Own Defense | II. On Being Declared Guilty | III. On Being Condemned to Death
• Isocrates: On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia
• Isaeus: In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares
• Demosthenes: I. The Second Oration Against Philip | II. On the State of the Chersonesus | III. On the Crown
• Aeschines: Against Ctesiphon; Or, On the Crown
• Dinarchus: Against Demosthenes

Rome, 218 B.C.-84 A.D.

• Publius Cornelius Scipio: To His Army Before Battle
• Hannibal: Address to His Soldiers
• Cato the Censor: In Support of the Oppian Law
• Scipio Africanus Major: To His Mutinous Troops
• The Gracchi: I. Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus | II. Fragments by Caius Gracchus
• Caius Memmius: On a Corrupt Oligarchy
• Caius Marius: On Being Accused of a Low Origin
• Cicero: I. The First Oration Against Verres | II. In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law | III. The First Oration Against Catiline | IV. The Second Oration Against Catiline | V. In Behalf of Archias the Poet | VI. The First Oration Against Mark Antony | VII. The Second Oration Against Mark Antony
• Mark Antony: His Oration Over the Dead Body of Cæsar
• Catiline: I. An Exhortation to Conspiracy | II. To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle
• Julius Cæsar: On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators
• Cato the Younger: On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators
• Germanicus: I. To His Mutinous Troops | II. To His Friends When Dying
• Seneca: To Nero When in Disfavor
• Otho: I. On Becoming Emperor | II. To His Soldiers in Rome | III. To His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide
• Agricola: To His Army in Scotland

Great Britain, 710-1777

• Saint Bede: His Sermon on All Saints
• John Wyclif: Rules for Decent Living
• Hugh Latimer: The Second Sermon on the Card
• Thomas Cranmer: On the Eve of His Execution
• John Knox: On the First Temptation of Christ
• Sir Walter Raleigh: His Last Words on the Scaffold
• Sir John Eliot: On the Condition of England
• John Pym: On Grievances in the Reign of Charles I.
• Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford: In His Own Defense
• John Milton: Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing
• Oliver Cromwell: At the Opening of Parliament Under the Protectorate
• Sir Henry Vane: I. Against Richard Cromwell | II. At His Trial for High Treason
• Algernon Sidney: Speech on the Scaffold
• Richard Rumbold: Speech on the Scaffold
• John Bunyan: The Heavenly Footman
• Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford: On His Proposed Removal from Office
• Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: Against the Gin Bill of the Ministry
• John Wesley: God’s Love to Fallen Man
• George Whitefield: On the Method of Grace
• James Wolfe: To His Army Before Quebec
• William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: I. The Retort to Walpole | II. On the Right to Tax America | III. On Affairs in America
• William Murray, Earl of Mansfield: On the Right to Tax America
• John Wilkes: I. On Coercive Measures in America | II. Conquest of America Impossible

Great Britain, 1780-1861

• William Pitt: I. The War in America Denounced | II. On an Attempt to Force His Resignation | III. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France
• Charles James Fox: I. On the British Defeat in America | II. The Tyranny of the East India Company | III. The Foreign Policy of Washington | IV. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France
• William Wilberforce: On the Horrors of the Slave Trade
• Thomas Erskine: On Limitations to Freedom of Speech
• Sir James Mackintosh: A Plea for Free Speech
• Thomas Chalmers: When Old Things Pass Away
• George Canning: On Granting Aid to Portugal
• Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay: On the Reform Bill
• Henry Peter, Lord Brougham: On Emancipation for the Negro
• Charles Dickens: As the Literary Guest of America
• Richard Cobden: The Effects of Protection on Agriculture
• Sir Robert Peel: For a Repeal of the Corn Laws
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston: On Affairs in Greece
• William Makepeace Thackeray: On Charity and Humor
• John Henry Newman: Catholicism and the Religions of the World
• John Bright: I. On the English Foreign Policy | II. On the “Trent” Affair

Great Britain, 1865-1906

• Sir John Alexander Macdonald: On Canadian Confederation
• Thomas Carlyle: Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University
• Goldwin Smith: The Secret Beyond Science
• Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: On the Principles of His Party
• William Ewart Gladstone: On the Domestic and Foreign Affairs of England
• Charles Bradlaugh: His Plea at the Bar of the House
• Randolph Henry Spencer, Lord Churchill: His “Trust the People” Speech
• Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d Marquess of Salisbury: On the Desertion of Gordon in Egypt
• Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Men Made Rich by the Poverty of Christ
• Augustine Birrell: The Distinction of Burke
• James, Viscount of Bryce: On the Government of Ireland Bill
• Arthur James, Earl of Balfour: On the Benefits of Reading
• Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery: Robert Burns
• Joseph Chamberlain: The True Conception of Empire
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier: On the Death of Queen Victoria
• Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith: Trade and the Empire
• John, Viscount Morley: His Address at Pittsburg
• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman: I. On the Policy of the Liberal Party | II. His “The Duma Is Dead: Long Live the Duma,” Speech
• Lord Robert Reid Loreburn: On the Policy of the English Liberals

Ireland, 1775-1902

• Edmund Burke: I. On Conciliation with America | II. Principles in Politics | III. At the Trial of Warren Hastings
• Henry Grattan: I. A Plea for Irish Legislative Independence | II. Invective Against Corry
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan: At the Trial of Warren Hastings
• John Philpot Curran: I. In Behalf of Rowan and Free Speech | II. At the Prosecution of Johnson for Libel
• Wolf Tone: On Being Found Guilty
• Robert Emmet: On Being Found Guilty of Treason
• Charles Phillips: I. An Address to Catholics | II. The Character of Napoleon
• Lord Plunket: On Catholic Relief
• Richard Lalor Sheil: I. On the Irish as "Aliens" | II. On the Disabilities of the Jews
• Isaac Butt: At the Bar of the House of Lords
• Daniel O'Connell: In Favor of the Repeal of the Union
• Thomas Francis Meagher: On Abhorring the Sword
• A. M. Sullivan: On the Zulu War
• Charles Stewart Parnell: I. On the Forged Letter Printed in the London "Times" | II. On the Home Rule Bill
• Michael Davitt: On the Irish Land League
• John Dillon: On the Death of Gladstone
• John Edward Redmond: Ireland and the Coronation

Continental Europe, 380-1906

Part I: Early Christianity

• Saint John Chrysostom: The Blessings of Death
• Saint Augustine: On the Lord's Prayer
• Peter Abelard: The Divine Tragedy
• Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Why Another Crusade?

Part II: The Reformation

• Girolamo Savonarola: I. A Report on His Embassy to the King | II. After His Excommunication
• Huldreich Zwingli: On Mercenary Soldiers
• Martin Luther: Before the Diet of Worms
• Philip Melanchthon: On the Death of Luther
• John Calvin: On Suffering Persecution

Part III: Modern France

• Jacques Bénigne Bossuet: On the Death of the Great Condé
• Bourdaloue: On the Passion of Christ
• Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon: True and False Simplicity
• Jean Baptiste Massillon: Of a Malignant Tongue
• Camille Desmoulins: Better to Die than not Live Free
• Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau: I. Necker's Financial Plan | II. On Being Accused of Treasonable Relations to the Court
• Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave: Against Majority Absolutism
• Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud: On the Situation in France
• Georges Jacques Danton: I. "Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare" | II. On Liberty of Worship | III. On Taxing the Rich
• Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre: I. Against Granting the King a Trial | II. His Last Speech
• Jean Paul Marat: In His Own Defense
• Pierre Joseph Cambon: On the Situation in France
• Louis de Saint-Just: Invective Against Danton
• Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac: On the Heroism of the "Vengeur's" Sailors
• Napoleon I: I. To the Army in Italy | II. To the Army of Italy Again | III. Speech to the Directory | IV. During the Egyptian Campaign | V. On the Anniversary of Austerlitz | VI. To His Soldiers at Fontainebleau | VII. After the Return from Elba
• Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot: Against Setting Up an Emperor
• Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine: To a Deputation of Poles
• Victor Marie Hugo: In Defense of His Son
• Léon Gambetta: Education for the Peasantry in France
• Paul Henri Benjamin, Baron d'Estournelles de Constant: France and the United States
• Jean Jaurès: In the Debate on Socialism with Clemenceau
• Georges Clemenceau: In the Debate on Socialism with Jaurès

Part IV: Italy

• Giuseppe Mazzini: To the Young Men of Italy
• Giuseppe Garibaldi: To His Soldiers
• Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour: Rome as the Capital of United Italy

Part V: Modern Germany, Hungary and Spain

• Frederick II: I. To His Generals Before Invading Silesia | II. To His Generals Before the Battle of Leuthen
• Otto von Bismarck: The Canossa Speech
• Louis Kossuth: On His Welcome to New York
• Emilio Castelar y Ripoll: Plea for a Republic in Spain
• Count Albert Apponyi: On the Death of Louis Kossuth

America, 1761-1837

• James Logan: Logan to Lord Dunmore
• Joseph Brant: Brant to Lord George Germaine
• Red Jacket: Red Jacket on the Religion of the White Man and the Red
• Tecumseh: I. Tecumseh to Governor Harrison at Vincennes | II. Tecumseh to General Proctor
• Pushmataha: Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun
• Black Hawk: Black Hawk to General Street
• Peter Wilson: Peter Wilson on the Empire State
• James Otis: In Opposition to Writs of Assistance
• Benjamin Franklin: I. His Examination Before the House of Commons | II. On the Federal Constitution | III. Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy
• Patrick Henry: I. The "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech | II. Shall Liberty or Empire Be Sought?
• George Washington: I. On His Appointment as Commander-in-Chief | II. His First Inaugural Address | III. His Farewell Address
• Samuel Adams: On American Independence
• William Pinkney: For the Relief of Slaves
• Alexander Hamilton: On the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
• John Marshall: On the Federal Constitution
• Fisher Ames: On the Treaty with Great Britain
• Thomas Jefferson: His First Inaugural Address
• Eliphalet Nott: On the Death of Hamilton
• John Randolph: On Offensive War with England
• Edward Everett: The Issue in the Revolution
• Andrew Jackson: I. His Second Inaugural Address | II. His Farewell Address
• Sargent S. Prentiss: On the Death of Lafayette
• Wendell Phillips: On the Murder of Lovejoy
• George Bancroft: The People in Art, Government, and Religion
• Thomas Hart Benton: On the Expunging Resolution
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: On the American Scholar

America, 1818-1865

• Robert Young Hayne: On the Foote Resolution
• Daniel Webster: I. The First Bunker Hill Monument Oration | II. In Reply to Hayne | III. On the Clay Compromise
• Henry Clay: I. The Emancipation of South America | II. His Attack on Jackson | III. On His Own Compromise Measures
• John Caldwell Calhoun: I. On the Expunging Resolution | II. On the Clay Compromise Measures
• Thomas Corwin: On the Mexican War
• Alexander Hamilton Stephens: The South and the Public Domain
• William Cullen Bryant: His Welcome to Kossuth
• Rufus Choate: His Eulogy of Webster
• Charles Sumner: On the Crime Against Kansas
• Preston Smith Brooks: In Defense of His Attack on Sumner
• William Henry Seward: His "Irrepressible Conflict" Speech
• John Brown: His Speech to the Court at His Trial
• William Lloyd Garrison: On the Death of John Brown
• William Lowndes Yancey: His Speech of Protest in the Charleston Convention
• Jefferson Davis: On Withdrawing from the Union
• Robert Toombs: On Resigning from the Senate
• Abraham Lincoln: I. The "House Divided Against Itself" Speech | II. In the First Debate with Douglas | III. His Farewell Words in Springfield | IV. The First Inaugural Address | V. The Speech at Gettysburg | VI. The Second Inaugural Address
• Stephen Arnold Douglas: In the First Debate with Lincoln

America, 1861-1905

• Edward D. Baker: His Reply to Breckenridge
• Henry Ward Beecher: His Speech in Liverpool
• Carl Schurz: A Plea for General Amnesty
• Horace Greeley: During His Campaign for President
• Susan Brownell Anthony: On Woman's Right to the Suffrage
• L.Q.C. Lamar: On Sumner and the South
• George William Curtis: His Oration at Concord
• Robert Green Ingersoll: I. His Speech Nominating Blaine for President | II. At His Brother's Grave
• Dwight Lyman Moody: 0What Think Ye of Christ?
• Roscoe Conkling: His Speech Nominating Grant for a Third Term
• James Abram Garfield: His Speech Nominating Sherman for President
• Ulysses Simpson Grant: Reasons for Being a Republican
• James Gillespie Blaine: On the Death of Garfield
• Grover Cleveland: I. His First Inaugural Address | II. His Eulogy of McKinley
• Henry Woodfin Grady: The Old South and the New
• Benjamin Harrison: His Inaugural Address
• Frances Elizabeth Willard: Work Done for Humanity
• Richard Parks Bland: The Parting of the Ways
• Thomas Brackett Reed: In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate
• Charles F. Crisp: In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate
• John Sherman: On "The Crime of 1873"
• John Peter Altgeld: On Municipal and Governmental Ownership
• George Frisbie Hoar: Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous
• John Hay: His Tribute to McKinley
• William McKinley: His Last Speech
• Theodore Roosevelt: I. His Inaugural Address | II. On American Motherhood