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Elegant Extracts: Book V. VI. Orations and harangues, Parliamentary speeches

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Wells and Lilly, 1826

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V	1

A third oration on the same subject Demosthenes	16

A fourth oration on the same subject Demosthenes	28

Oration concerning the regulation of the state	37

Oration against Verres Cicero	58

Oration spoken by Pericles at the funeral of those	79

Romulus to the people of Rome after building the city	90

Sophonisba to Massinissa Livy	97

Speech of Sir Robert Philips on Public Grievances 1627	148

Speech of Sir Benjamin Rudyard in the Committee	156

1641	163

Speech of the Earl of Strafford on the Mutiny Bill 1731	169

1732	175

Speech of Sir John St Aubin for Repealing the Septen	181

Sir Robert Walpoles reply	188

Speech of Lord Lyttleton on the Repeal of the Act	195

Micipsa to Jugurtha Sallust	104

Calistheness reproof of Clegns flattery to Alexander	111

Galgacus the general of the Caledonii to his army	117

Hannibals address to Scipio Africanus at their inter	124

Speech of Titus Quintius to the Romans when	130

Senecas address to the emperor Nero Tacitus	136

Speech of Lord Mansfield on the bill for preventing	215

Speech of Lord Mansfield on the subject of Mr Evans	221

Speech of Sir W Meredith on frequent Executions 1777	239

Part of Mr Foxs speech on his bill for the better	245

Part of a speech of Mr Burke on the Debts of	254

1786	267

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Pealkiri	Elegant Extracts: Book V. VI. Orations and harangues, Parliamentary speeches 3. köide of Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Prose Writers, Vicesimus Knox Elegant extracts from the most eminent prose writers
Compiled by	Vicesimus Knox
Illustrated by	S. Noble, John Romney, Charles Heath, J. Pye, Anker Smith, Richard Cook, Henry Corbould, Thomas Stothard, Richard Westall, William Henry Brooke
Contributors	John Sharpe, Charles Whittingham, Robert Jennings (Bookseller), Plummer and Brewis, Howlett and Brimmer
Publisher	Wells and Lilly, 1826
Original from	California Ülikool
Digitized	28 veeb. 2009

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