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be Distinct and Deliberate"; Let Your
Pronunciation be Bold and Forcible ";
"Acquire Compass and Variety in the
Height of Your Voice"; "Pronounce
Your Words with Propriety and Ele-
gance"; "Pronounce Every Word Con-
sisting of More Than One Syllable with
its Proper Accent "; " In Every Sentence
Distinguish the More Significant Words
by a Natural, Forcible, and Varied Em-
phasis"; "Acquire a Just Variety of
Pause and Inflection"; "Accompany the
Emotions and Passions Which Your
Words Express by Correspondent Tones,
Looks, and Gestures."

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(Greece, c. 50 A. D.-(?) 109-112
On the Power of Speaking.
Erskine, Thomas, Baron (England, 1750-1823) 392
Degradation of Religion by Politics; Prec-

edents of Madness; The Age of Rea-
son."- Celebrated Passages.

Evarts, William Maxwell (American, 1818-) 393
The Wisdom of Second Thought.- Cele-
brated Passages.

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(England, 1764-1831) 403
Duty and Moral Health.-Celebrated Pas-
sages.

Hamilton, Alexander (American, 1757-1804) 403
A Nation at War with Itself"; "Let Us
Not Mistake Words for Things"; Des-
potism and Extensive Territory; Na-
tional Debt a National Blessing.- Cele-
brated Passages.

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(American, Contemporaneous) 407
The Right to Make Foolish Speeches.-
Celebrated Passages.

Henry, Patrick

(American, 1736-1799) 407
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"; A
Prophecy of Progress; "Why Should
We Fetter Commerce?" - Celebrated
Passages.

Herder, Johann Gottfried von

(Germany, 1744-1803) 409
"It Is No Tenet of Religion to Abjure
Thinking." — Celebrated Passages.

Higginson, John
(England, 1616-1708) 409
Cent Per Cent in New England.- Cele-
brated Passages.

Hill, Benjamin Harvey (American, 1823-1882) 409
"I Was Born a Slaveholder." - Celebrated
Passages.
Hilliard, H. W.

(American, 1808-1892) 409

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The Puritan.- Celebrated Passages.

Hobbes, Thomas (England, 1588-1679) 135-146
Analysis and Synopsis of Aristotle's
"Rhetoric." Of the Original of Elocu-
tion and Pronunciation; Of the Choice
of Words and Epithets; Of the Things
That Make an Oration Flat; Of a Simili-
tude; Of the Purity of Language; Of the
Amplitude and Tenuity of Language;
Of the Convenience or Decency of Elo-
cution; Of Two Sorts of Styles; Of
Those Things That Grace an Oration,
and Make it Delightful; In What
Manner an Oration is Graced by the
Things Aforesaid: Of the Difference
Between the Style To Be Used in
Writing, and the Style To Be Used in
Pleading; Of the Parts of an Oration
and Their Order; Of the Proem;
Places of Crimination and Purgation;
Of the Narration; Of Proof, or Confirma-
tion, and Refutation; Of Interrogations,
Answers, and Jests; Of the Peroration.
Holborne, Sir Robert (England, c. 1594-1647) 410
Against Ship Money.-Celebrated Passages.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

(American, 1809-1894) 410
Boston the Hub.- Celebrated Passages.

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(England, 1808-1892) 423

Meredith, Sir W.

Ignorance a Crime.- Celebrated Passages.
Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal

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(England) 428

Government by the Gallows.- Celebrated
Passages.
Miller, Hugh
(Scotland, 1802-1856) 429
The Procession of Being; The Sown Seeds
of Life.- Celebrated Passages.
Milton, John
(England, 1608-1674) 481-484
"Hail, Horrors, Hail!"; Satan to the
Fallen Angels; Satan Addresses the
Council of War; Moloch's Speech for
War; Belial's Speech Opposing War;
Milton's Apostrophe to Light; Satan's
Address to the Sun.-Celebrated Imagin-
ary Addresses and Soliloquies.

"An Eagle Mewing Her Mighty Youth." 429
-Celebrated Passages.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Honoré Riquetti, Comte de
(France, 1749-1791) 429
Educating Conscience a Duty; Announc-
ing the Death of Franklin; And Yet
You Deliberate ! From the Capitol to
the Tarpeian Rock."- Celebrated Pas-
sages.

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