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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. X
America: III (1861–1905)
| Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces delivered by 213 rhetoricians. |
Contents
| Index to Authors |
| NEW YORK: FUNK AND WAGNALLS, 1906 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2002 |
- Edward D. Baker
- His Reply to Breckenridge
- Henry Ward Beecher
- His Speech in Liverpool
- Carl Schurz
- A Plea for General Amnesty
- Horace Greeley
- During His Campaign for President
- Susan Brownell Anthony
- On Woman’s Right to the Suffrage
- L.Q.C. Lamar
- On Sumner and the South
- George William Curtis
- His Oration at Concord
- Robert Green Ingersoll
- I. His Speech Nominating Blaine for President
- II. At His Brother’s Grave
- Dwight Lyman Moody
- What Think Ye of Christ?
- Roscoe Conkling
- His Speech Nominating Grant for a Third Term
- James Abram Garfield
- His Speech Nominating Sherman for President
- Ulysses Simpson Grant
- Reasons for Being a Republican
- James Gillespie Blaine
- On the Death of Garfield
- Grover Cleveland
- I. His First Inaugural Address
- II. His Eulogy of McKinley
- Henry Woodfin Grady
- The Old South and the New
- Benjamin Harrison
- His Inaugural Address
- Frances Elizabeth Willard
- Work Done for Humanity
- Richard Parks Bland
- The Parting of the Ways
- Thomas Brackett Reed
- In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate
- Charles F. Crisp
- In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate
- John Sherman
- On “The Crime of 1873”
- John Peter Altgeld
- On Municipal and Governmental Ownership
- George Frisbie Hoar
- Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous
- John Hay
- His Tribute to McKinley
- William McKinley
- His Last Speech
- Theodore Roosevelt
- I. His Inaugural Address
- II. On American Motherhood