| A literary man is no better than another, as far as my experience goes; and a man writing a book no better or no worse than one who keeps accounts in a ledger or follows any other occupation. |
| —On Charity and Humor |
| William Makepeace Thackeray |
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV
Great Britain: II (1780–1861)
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
- William Pitt
- I. The War in America Denounced
- II. On an Attempt to Force His Resignation
- III. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France
- Charles James Fox
- I. On the British Defeat in America
- II. The Tyranny of the East India Company
- III. The Foreign Policy of Washington
- IV. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France
- William Wilberforce
- On the Horrors of the Slave Trade
- Thomas Erskine
- On Limitations to Freedom of Speech
- Sir James Mackintosh
- A Plea for Free Speech
- Thomas Chalmers
- When Old Things Pass Away
- George Canning
- On Granting Aid to Portugal
- Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
- On the Reform Bill
- Henry Peter, Lord Brougham
- On Emancipation for the Negro
- Charles Dickens
- As the Literary Guest of America
- Richard Cobden
- The Effects of Protection on Agriculture
- Sir Robert Peel
- For a Repeal of the Corn Laws
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
- On Affairs in Greece
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- On Charity and Humor
- John Henry Newman
- Catholicism and the Religions of the World
- John Bright
- I. On the English Foreign Policy
- II. On the “Trent” Affair