George Canning In Repose Yet in Readiness Sydney Smith The Opponents of Reform Taxes the Price of Glory Daniel O'Connell The Charms of Kildare Lord Henry Brougham The Industrial Peril of War in America . Viscount Palmerston Civil War in Ireland Sir Robert Peel . .. The Importance of Classical Education . Lord John Russell . . . The “Rotten Boroughs” of England . Importance of Literary Studies Richard L. Sheil... Irish Aliens and English Victories The Horrors of Civil War Thomas Babington Macaulay Superficial Knowledge Richard Cobden The Gentry and the Protective System Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield The Dangers of Democracy William Ewart Gladstone. Warfare and Colonization . Home Rule for Ireland . John Bright The Crushing Weight of Militarism Charles S. Parnell. Evictions and Emigration Joseph Chamberlain . . The Anomalies of the Suffrage 510 511 513 514 516 517 518 521 522 524 525 526 527 529 530 531 533 534 535 536 537 540 541 543 544 547 548 551 553 553 557558 560 561 PAGE BOOK VI. The Sermon of the Plow God's Power Above that of Things John Wesley Irreligion Among College People George Whitefield A Warning Against Worldly Ways Innocent Diversions John Henry Newman . The Evils of Money Getting . Henry Edward Manning Rome the Eternal Arthur Penrhyn Stanley The Lesson of Palmerston's Life . Charles H. Spurgeon . The Authorship of the Bible Joseph Parker. Personality of God . 564 565 567 568 569 570 572 573 574 575 576 578 579 581 582 584 585 587 588 BOOK VII. And Deliberate. An Appeal to the People The Despotism of the Jacobins George Jacques Danton Let France be Free . To Dare; Always to Dare Jean Paul Marat A Defense from Impeachment Maximilien Isidore Robespierre A Final Appeal 590 591 593 595 596 597 598 599 600 602 603 604 605 BOOK VIII. Supremacy of the Art of Poetry What is the French Revolution? 607 608 610 611 612 PAGB Louis Adolphe Thiers. The Wastefulness of the Imperial Finance . Victor Marie Hugo Napoleon the Little Voltaire . Leon Gambetta The Regeneration of France RICHARD HENRY LEE AND GOUVERNEUR MORRIS WISAS SOSOS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND EDWARD EVERETT Names famous in American Oratory for scholarship and elegant diction as well as models of the most distinguished oratory. Both we re uncompromising in their advocacy of popular rtghts. Their printed orations occupy many volumes and cover all the great questions of nearly a century. |