Orations of British orators including biographical and critical sketches
Introduction by Hawthorne, Julian
- New York P.F. Collier & Son 1900
- 449 p
- World's Greatest Literature .
The Ploughers / Hugh Latimer -- Speech at the stake / Thomas Cranmer -- Prayer / John Knox -- The Certainty of perpetuity of faith in the elect / Richard Hooker -- Sin / John Donne -- On the condition of England under the Duke of Buckingham / Sir John Eliot -- Speech when impeached for high treason / The Earl of Strafford (Thomas Wentworth) -- Speech on the dissolution of parliament / Oliver Cromwell -- How far examples are to be followed ; An ill match well broken off / Thomas Fuller -- Speech on the bill of attainder against Lord Strafford / George Digby, Earl of Bristol -- The Marriage ring / Jeremy Taylor -- divine grace and holy obedience / Tobert Leighton -- The Heavenly footman / John Bunyan -- Slander / Isaac Barrow -- Doing good / John Tillotson -- Union of England and Scotland / Lord Belhaven (Joh Hamilton) 00 On a motion for his removal / Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford -- The Gin act / Lord Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope) -- On seeing him that is invisible / Philip Doddridge -- Free grace / John Wesley -- On the right of England to tax America / Lord Mansfield (William Murray) -- On the right of taxing America / William Pitt, Lord Chatham -- On conciliation with AMerica / Edmund Burke -- On the rejection of Bonaparte's overtures of peace / Charles James Fox -- On the liberty of the press / John Philpot Curran -- The rights of the Irish people / Henry Grattan -- The Limitations of free speech / Lord Thomas ERskine -- Speech at the trial of Warren Hastings / Richard Brinsley Sheridan.