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LIST OF ORATIONS

Against Crowning Demosthenes..
Against Eratosthenes.....
Against the Tory Government.
At His Brother's Grave...
Cuba Must Be Free.....
Digging for the Thought.
Education

Encomium on Evagoras..
Eulogy of General Grant..
Eulogy of President Garfield..
Eulogy of Webster

Evidence and Precedents in Law.
Historical Reading...

Inaugural Address..

In Favor of the Peloponnesian

Judicial Injustices..

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Arthur James Balfour.. 113

.Theodore Roosevelt.... 381

War..Pericles

Liberty or Death....

Menexenus and Others Against Da

caeogenes and Leochares.

On Leaving Springfield..

...

174

.Charles Sumner.

405

.Patrick Henry........

.......

306

.Isaeus

209

..Abraham Lincoln.

325

.Wendell Phillips....... 325

337

164

Robert Young Hayne... 318

....Robert Toombs...
..Antiphon

On the Foote Resolution..
On the Murder of Lovejoy....
On Resigning from the Senate.
On the Murder of Herodes..
On the Punishment of the Catiline
Conspirators

On the Treatment of the Catiline
Conspirators

Cato the Younger...... 265

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

Oration Against Leocrates....

Oration on the Crown.

Our Country...

...Caesar

.Lycurgus

..Demosthenes

270

331

223

243

.Edwin G. Lawrence.... 384

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

John Haynes Holmes.. 375

William Wirt.....

61

William J. Bryan.

366

.Demosthenes

77

The First Oration Against Verres... Cicero

282

..Abraham Lincoln.....

322

The Permanency of Empire...

Richard B. Sheridan... 380
Wendell Phillips...

401

"The Seventh of March" Speech.....Daniel Webster..

The Strength of the American Gov

ernment

.....

310

..John Bright.....

353

The Perfect Orator...

Adam, 15

281

INDEX

Adams, Samuel, 30, 33, 299
Aeschines, 229, 298
Americus, Roscius,
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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Hadley, Arthur T., 303
Hamilton, Alexander, 299
Hampden, John, 298

Hayne, Robert Young, 44, 318
Hedges, Job E., 149

Henry, Patrick, IV, 39, 103, 298,
299, 306

Hoar, George F., 34, 85
Hobbes, John Oliver (Mrs.
Craigie), VII

Holmes, John Haynes, 375, 378
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 126
Home, John, 302

Hortensius, 258
Hylan, John F., 150
Hyperides, 202

Inflection, 27; combined use of
emphasis and, 46; the falling,
33; the rising, 27
Ingersoll, Robert G., 359
Isaeus, 27, 209
Isocrates, 194

Jesus, IV, 17, 20
John, St., 35

John the Baptist, IV

Kossuth, Louis, 38

Lafayette, Marquis de, 410
La Follette, Robert M., IV, 13
Lamar, L. Q. C., 357
Larynx, 127

Lawrence, Edwin Gordon, 64,
384

Lee, Richard Henry, 299
Lesson Talks, 389

Lincoln, Abraham, IV, 7, 8, 12,
13, 14, 27, 50, 142, 161, 162,
299, 322, 325, 411
Location, 41
Loisette, 138
Louis XI, 298
Luther, Martin, IV
Lycurgus, 223
Lysias, 191, 192

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O'Connell, Daniel, IV, 299
Opposition, 41

Orations, how to construct and
deliver, 26

Orator, the making of an, 156
Orators, how to judge of the
power of, 161; the Grecian,
158; the Latin, 257; the means
employed by great, 1; the
modern, 298
Oratory, examples of Grecian,

162; of Latin, 259; of mod-
ern, 306; the application of
the means of, 26; how to
judge of the influence of, 161;
the requirements of, 162; the
making of, I

Otis, James, 298, 299

Paraphrasing, 103
Parenthesis, 51
Parker, Joseph, 22
Paul, St., IV, V

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Pinkney, William, 40, 299
Pitch, 38

Plunket, William C., 299
Plutarch, 258

Pompey the Great, 257, 280
Positive, 35; qualified, 36
Prentiss, Sargent S., 31, 47, 299
Prendergast, William A., 149

Question, the direct, 33; indi-
rect, 34
Questions, 32

Quality, 39; aspirated, 40; pure,
40; whispered, 40
Quintilian, 138

Respiration, the organs of, 123
Result, the arrival at a, 34
Roosevelt, Theodore, IV, 13, 27,
31, 162, 300, 304, 381, 410
Ruskin, John, III

Scaevolas, 281
Self-consciousness, 152
Series, the, 54; commencing,
55; concluding, 56
Seward, William H., 4, 5, 12,
52, 89

Shakespeare, William, V, 19, 20,
41, 44, 45, 50, 85, 129, 143, 150,
151, 157, 258

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 42,
380

Sothern, Edward H., 43
Speech, divisions of a, 67; how
to acquire fluency of, 153;
how to produce, 130
Spurgeon, Charles H., 120
Stanton, Edwin M., 97

Stephens, Alexander H., 15, 54

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