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(American, 1758-1808) 340

What Is Patriotism? Sober Second

Thought.-Celebrated Passages.

Andocides

(Greece, c. 467?-391 B. C.) 341
Against Epichares, One of the Thirty
Tyrants.- Celebrated Passages.

Anselm, St.

(Italy, 1033-1109) 341
When Tempests Rage.- Celebrated Pas-
sages.
Antiphon

(Greece, 480-411 B. C.) 341
Unjust Prosecutions.-Celebrated Passages.
Aristotle
(Greece, 384-322 B. C.) 25-46
Subjects of Deliberative Oratory; Objects
to be Aimed at in Public Speaking; Pros-
ecution and Defense; On Pleasing the
Judges; The Proper Handling of an Ar-
gument; Of Amplification and Exten-
uation; On Excellence of Style; The
Parts and Arrangement of a Speech;
Of the Exordium; Of the Narration or
Statement; Of the Proof; Of the Pero-
ration.
Arnold, Thomas
(England, 1795-1842) 341
"The Little Words, Life and Death." —
Celebrated Passages.

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(American, Nineteenth Century) 346
No South, No North, No East, No West."
- Celebrated Passages.

Benton, Thomas H. (American, 1782-1858) 346
"There Is East; There Is India "; America
and Asia.- Celebrated Passages.

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"Oratory, the Masterful Art."— Celebeated
Passages.

(American, Nineteenth Century) 351
Loving Him for His Enemies.- Celebrated
Passages.
Brewer, David J.

(American, 1837-) 351

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(American, 1835-1893) 352

The Worship of the Sword.- Celebrated
Passages.
Brooks, Phillips

Power Over the Lives of Others.- Cele-
brated Passages.

Brougham, Henry, Baron Brougham and
Vaux
(England, 1778-1868) 352
On Pitt's Conquest; Higher Law in Eng-
land; Law Reform; Public Benefactors
and Their Rewards; Slanderers as In-
sects; The Schoolmaster the Greatest
Conqueror.- Celebrated Passages.
Brown, B. Gratz

(American, 1826-1885) 854
Civil War Politics.- Celebrated Passages.
Brown, Henry Armitt (American, 1844–1878) 354
The Dangers of the Present.— Celebrated
Passages.
Brown, John

Higher Law

(American, 1800-1859) 354
Defined in Court.- Cele-

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(Germany, 1815-1898) 348

Bismarck, Prince Otto von

The Furor Teutonicus.- Celebrated Pas-
sages.

Black, Jeremiah Sullivan

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"Crown of Thorns and Cross of Gold."
- Celebrated Passages.

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Bryant, Edgar E.

(American, Nineteenth Century) 355
War and the Constitution.- Celebrated Pas-
sages.

Bryant, William Cullen (American, 1794-1878) 355
The Essence of Greatness.- Celebrated
Passages.

Buchanan, James

Money's Worth and Virtue's Worth.-
Celebrated Passages.

The Devil Chasing a Sinner.- Celebrated
Passages.

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(American, 1818-1894) 349
Celebrated Pas-

Bunyan, John

sages.

(American, 1791-1868) 355

(England, 1628-1688) 355

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Celebrated Passages:

Collecting Taxes.in India Under Hast-
ings; Impeachment of Warren Hast-
ings, 1788; Peroration Against Warren
Hastings; Hyder Ali in the Carnatic;
"Afraid of Being Too Much in the
Right; Arbitrary Power Anarchical;
Arbitrary Power and Conquest; Asso-
ciation of the Good; Charters, When
Kept; "Controlled Depravity Is Not
Innocence"; Corruption and Disorder;
"Difficulty will not Suffer us to be Su-
perficial"; "Epidemical Fanaticism";
Esteem of the Wise and Good; Fire
Bells as Disturbers of the Peace; Fit-
ness for Freedom; Flattery, its In-
fluence; Government; Hampden's
Twenty Shillings; "Humiliation Can-
not Degrade Humanity"; Hypocrisy ;

355

Innovation and Confined Views;
Judges and the Law; Levelers Never
Equalize; Liberty of Individuals;
"Liberty Nibbled Away for Expe-
dients"; Marie Antoinette as the
Morning Star; Political Arithmetic;
Pretenders; Property for the Fittest;
Religion Makes Co-operation Possible;
Revolutions at their Flood; Shame;
Suspicion More Hurtful than Perfidy;
"The Road to Eminence Ought Not to
Be Made too Easy"; "Things that Are
Not Practicable Are Not Desirable";
"Tribunals Fall with Peace"; Virtue
Contagious as Well as Vice.

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Caird, John

(Scotland, 1820-) 361
The Art of Public Speaking; The Per-
sonal Equation in Eloquence. - Cele
brated Passages.

Calhoun, John C. (American, 1782-1850) 362
Against the Force Bill; Legislation Nulli-
fying the Constitution; Avarice and
Political Corruption; Cohesive Power of
Capital; Union, Not Nation; Force and
Consent; Virtues of the Puritans; Gov-
ernmental Power and Popular Incapac-
ity; Liberty and Society; Society and
Government; Taxation When Unneces-
sary a Robbery; The Unpardonable
Political Sin. - Celebrated Passages.

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(Spain, 1832-1899) 365
Resurrection. - Cele

The Power of Opprobrium; Precedents
and Progress. - Celebrated Passages.
Castelar, Emilio

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brated Passages.

Cato, The Elder

Woman's Rights. -

Cato, Uticensis

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(Rome, 234-149 B. C.) 366
Celebrated Passages.

(Rome, 95-46 B. C.) 366

Making the Worse Appear the Better
Part; Good Breeding; Enemies a Bene-
fit. Celebrated Passages.
Chalmers, Thomas

(Scotland, 1780-1847) 366
How to Make a Name."- Celebrated Pas-
sages.

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(American, 1808-1873) 368
Jefferson and the West; Indestructible
Union of Indestructible States. Cele-
brated Passages.
Châteaubriand, Francois René, Vicomte de

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Cobden, Richard
(France, 1768-1848) 369
"There is a God!", - Celebrated Passages.
Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of

(England, 1708-1778) 369
The Crime of Being a Young Man; « If
Not, May Discord Prevail Forever";
God and the Host of Miters"; On the
Expulsion of Wilkes; "If I Were an
American"; On Lord North;
Spirit of the Eighteenth Century; Bay-
onets as Agencies of Reconciliation.-
Celebrated Passages.

Whig

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(England, 1804-1865) 876
Small States and Civilization; Armament
Not Necessary. - Celebrated Passages.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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(England, 1772-1834) 376
Hissing Prejudices. — Celebrated Passages.
(American, 1829-1888) 376
The Candidate from Appomattox. - Cele-
brated Passages.

Conkling, Roscoe

Constant, Benjamin

Censorship of the Press. - Celebrated Pas-

sages.

Cook, Joseph

(France, 1767-1830) 376

(American, 1838-) 377

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Crapo, William Wallace

(American, Nineteenth Century) 378
Public Office a Public Trust. - Celebrated
Passages.

Crittenden, John Jordan

(American, 1787-1863) 378

Clay as a Representative Man. - Cele-
brated Passages.

Crockett, David

(American, 1786-1836) 379
A Raccoon in a Bag; "Be Sure You're
Right."- Celebrated Passages.

Croly, Rev. George ( Ireland, c. 1780-1860) 485
Catiline Defies the Senate. - Celebrated
Imaginary Addresses and Soliloquies.
Culpeper, Sir John

( England, (?)-1660) 379

"Monopolies and Polers of the People.”
-Celebrated Passages.

Curran, John Philpot (Ireland, 1750-1817) 379
Pensions and Patriotism; Reply to
Threats; The Irresistible March of
Progress; "Such is the Oscitancy of
Man"; Appeal to Lord Avonmore; In-
formers in Treason Cases; Liberty of
the Press. - Celebrated Passages.

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