Masterpieces
Subtitle: European
By: Ashley H. Thorndike, editor
Series: Modern eloquence -- v.9
Publisher: Modern Eloquence Corp.
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Speeches, addresses
Notes: "Modern eloquence founded by Thomas B. Reed."
Table of contents: title: Funeral oration / Percicles; title: On his condemnation to death / Socrates; title: Against Ctesiphon; title: Aeschines; title: On the crown / Demosthenes; title: To the men of Athens, on Mars' Hill / St. Paul; title: First oration for Julius Caesar / Mark Anthony; title: Address to his soldiers / Hannibal; title: On the Lord's Prayer / St. Augustine; title: Why another crusade? / St. Bernard; title: Sermon to the birds / St. Francis; title: Before the Diet of Worms / Martin Luther; title: Charge to Justice Hutton / Francis Bacon; title: Defense before the House of Lords / Wentworth (Earl of Strafford); title: Against Strafford / John Pym; title: On the dissolution of Parliament / Oliver Cromwell; title: Funeral oration on the Prince de Conde / Bossuet; title: True or false simplicity / Fenelon; title: God's love to fallen man / John Wesley; title: Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards; title: Affairs in America / William Pitt (Earl of Chatham); title: Conciliation with America ; At the trial of Warren Hastings ; The age of chivalry / Edward Burke; title: Against Warren Hastings / Richard Brinsley Sheridan; title: On the refusal to negotiate with France / William Pitt; title: On the rejection of Napoleon's overtures / Charles James Fox; title: Protest against sentence as a traitor / Robert Emmet; title: The fall of Bonaparte / George Canning; title: Against the charge of treason / Honore Mirabeau; title: To dare again, ever to dare! ; Let France be free ; Squeezing the sponge / Georges Jacques Danton; title: Against capital punishment ; Universal suffrage ; The festival of the supreme being / Maximilien Robespierre; title: Addresses to his army / Napoleon Bonaparte; title: The Reform Bill / Lord Macauley; title: Free trade with all nations / Richard Cobden; title: The "Trent" affair / John Bright; title: The repeal of the Union / Daniel O'Connell; title: To the young men of Italy / Joseph Mazzini; title: Rome and Italy / Count Camillo Benso di Cavour; title: A plea for republican institutions / Emilio Castelar; title: Address to the delegates from Alsace / Leon Gambetta; title: On domestic and foreign affairs / William Ewart Gladstone; title: "Peace with honor" / Lord Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disreali); title: The abandonment of General Gordon / Lord Salisbury; title: Home rule for Ireland / John Morely; title: War and armaments in Europe / Otto von Bismarck; title: Socialism and assassination / August Bebel; title: The program of socialism / Jean Jaures; title: Democracy vs. socialism / Georges Clemenceau; title: The budget / David Lloyd George.