| Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. |
| —Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing |
| John Milton |
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III
Great Britain: I (710–1777)
Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces delivered by 213 rhetoricians.
Contents
NEW YORK: FUNK AND WAGNALLS, 1906
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2002
- Saint Bede
- His Sermon on All Saints
- John Wyclif
- Rules for Decent Living
- Hugh Latimer
- The Second Sermon on the Card
- Thomas Cranmer
- On the Eve of His Execution
- John Knox
- On the First Temptation of Christ
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- His Last Words on the Scaffold
- Sir John Eliot
- On the Condition of England
- John Pym
- On Grievances in the Reign of Charles I.
- Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
- In His Own Defense
- John Milton
- Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing
- Oliver Cromwell
- At the Opening of Parliament Under the Protectorate
- Sir Henry Vane
- I. Against Richard Cromwell
- II. At His Trial for High Treason
- Algernon Sidney
- Speech on the Scaffold
- Richard Rumbold
- Speech on the Scaffold
- John Bunyan
- The Heavenly Footman
- Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
- On His Proposed Removal from Office
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
- Against the Gin Bill of the Ministry
- John Wesley
- God’s Love to Fallen Man
- George Whitefield
- On the Method of Grace
- James Wolfe
- To His Army Before Quebec
- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
- I. The Retort to Walpole
- II. On the Right to Tax America
- III. On Affairs in America
- William Murray, Earl of Mansfield
- On the Right to Tax America
- John Wilkes
- I. On Coercive Measures in America
- II. Conquest of America Impossible