A Selection from the

World's Great Orations

THE WORLD'S BEST" SERIES

EDITED BY

SHERWIN CODY

A SELECTION FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES.

A SELECTION FROM THE BEST ENGLISH ESSAYS.

THE BEST POEMS AND ESSAYS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.

THE BEST TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.

A SELECTION FROM THE WORLD'S GREAT ORATIONS.

A SELECTION FROM THE GREAT ENGLISH POETS.

Each, I vol$1.00 net.

A SELECTION FROM
the WORLD'S GREAT

ORATIONS

ILLUSTRATIVE of the HISTORY OF ORA-
TORY and the ART of PUBLIC SPEAKING

CHOSEN AND EDITED

A SERIES O F

WITH

INTRODUCTIONS

By SHERWIN CODY

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EDITOR OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES,"
"THE BEST ENGLISH ESSAYS," AND "THE BEST TALES AND
BEST POEMS AND ESSAYS OF POE," AND AUTHOR OF "THE
ART OF WRITING AND SPEAKING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

I. DEMOSTHENES: "On the Crown" (in part).

Translated by the Editor.

II. CICERO : "I am a Roman Citizen " (from

the Oration against Verres). Translated

by the Editor

III. SAVONAROLA: "I bring you good News";

"The Sea of Politics"; "Lazarus Come

Forth".

IV. BOSSUET: Funeral Oration of Henriette of
England (in part). Translated by the Editor
V. MIRABEAU: The Right of Declaring War
(second oration)

VI. CHATHAM: Taxing America

VII. BURKE: On American Taxation (abridged);

Impeachment of Warren Hastings (pero-

ration); Marie Antoinette (paragraph)

VIII. GRATTAN : Declaration of Irish Rights

IX. CURRAN: The Press (libel case)

X. SHERIDAN: "The Desolation of Oude";

"Filial Piety"; "Justice" (from oration

on the Begums in the trial of Warren

Hastings).

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