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matter was adopted in order to insure the student's interest being aroused in the subject at the start, thereby preventing an extinguishing of his enthusiasm by initiating him into the dry mysteries of the technical parts of speech before he had gained a fair idea regarding the means to employ in qualifying himself to become a public speaker. When, however, it is intended to use the work as a textbook, it should not be studied as it is read, but the lessons should be taken up in a natural sequence, beginning with breath and continuing through to the production of the finished speech or oration. Here is given an outline of study, or syllabus, showing the order in which the different subjects treated in the book can be taken up to the best advantage.

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On Withdrawing from the Union....Jefferson Davis..

Oration Against Leocrates.....

Oration on the Crown.

Our Country....

...Caesar

270

331

.Lycurgus

223

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Peace Between Labor and Capital...John Haynes Holmes.. 378 Roberts Burns...... ...George William Curtis. 354

Speech Against Athenogenes.

...Hyperides

Speech in Support of the Oppian Law Cato the Censor..

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202

259

180

278

276

357

The First Oration Against Verres...Cicero

Speech to the Conspirators.
Sumner and the South...

The Birth of an Orator.

The Blind Preacher....

"The Cross of Gold" Speech...

The First Olynthiac......

The "House Divided Against Itself"

Speech

The Perfect Orator....

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282

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The Permanency of Empire....

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"The Seventh of March" Speech.....Daniel Webster.. The Strength of the American Gov

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John Bright......

353

Adam, 15

INDEX

Adams, Samuel, 30, 33, 299
Aeschines, 229, 298
Americus, Roscius, 281
Andocides, 179, 180
Antiphon, 163, 164

Antony, Marc, 257, 258, 259
Apposition, 36
Archias, 281

Argumentation, 87; examples
in, 96

Audience, how, to control an,

145

Aurelius, Marcus, 410
Ayres, Alfred, 43, 46

Balfour, Arthur James, 60
Barnes, William S., 24
Barrett, Elizabeth, 23
Beecher, Henry Ward, V, VII,
20, 41, 53, 56, 146
Bent, Francis P., 150
Beveridge, Albert J., 42
Bible, the, V, 20, 35, 46, 49,
58, 66, 120
Bixby, Mrs., 142
Black, General, 102

Black, Jeremiah S., 84, 99
Blaine, James G., 38, 56, 364
Bradish, Luther, 95
Brady, James T., 55

Breath, 132, 122; the forms of,
121; exercises for the pro-
duction of, 134
Breathe, how to, 120
Bright, John, 299, 353
Browning, Robert, 23
Brougham, Lord, 299

Bryan, William J., IV, 13, 27,
29, 61, 300, 303, 366

Burke, Edmund, 28, 34, 42, 161,

299

Caesar, Julius, 257, 258, 259,
270, 280

Calhoun, John C., 299
Carnegie, Andrew, 300
Cassius, Dion, 259

Catiline, Lucius Sergius, 275,
276, 280, 298

Cato the Censor, 257, 259
Cato the Younger, 257, 265
Charles I, 298

Channing, William Ellery, V,
107, 126

Chatham, Earl of, 161, 299
Choate, Rufus, 94, 98, 299, 345
Choate, Joseph H., 304
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, VII, 13,
27, 34, 55, 257, 258, 280, 282,
298, 305

Clause, qualified, 30

Clay, Henry, VI, 27, 162, 299
Cobden, Richard, 299
Cockran, W. Bourke, 304
Commands, 35

Composition, 84
Conditional, 30

Confidence, how to acquire, 145
Continuity, 31

Contrast, 47; double, 48; single,
48; triple, 50

Contrasts, series of, 58

Construction, 64
Cords, the vocal, 127
Cousin, Victor, VI

Crassus, Lucius Lucinius, 257,
258, 281

Curran, John P., 23, 93, 299

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