Great orations by Clay, Fox, Gladstone, Lincoln, O'Connell, Phillips, Pitt, Webster, and others
By: with a critical introduction by Thomas B. Reed ...
Series: The world's great books ... Aldine ed.
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1899
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc.
Table of contents: title: Lord Chatham on the American stamp act.; title: Henry Grattan on the Declaration of Irish rights.; title: William Pitt on the slave-trade.; title: John Philpot Curran on the trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan.; title: Charles James Fox on the French overtures for peace.; title: Daniel O'Connell on the recovery of Catholic rights.; title: Daniel Webster. The Bunker Hill monument.; title: Henry Clay in defence of the American system.; title: Richard Lalor Shell on the Irish municipal bill.; title: John Bright on the foreign policy of England.; title: Wendell Phillips. Toussaint L'Ouverture.; title: Henry Ward Beecher. Union and emancipation.; title: Abraham Lincoln. The Gettysburg address. Second inaugural address.; title: Lord Beaconsfield on the principles of the conservative party.; title: William Ewart Gladstone. Domestic and foreign affairs.; title: James Gillespie Blaine. James Abram Garfield.