Representative British Orations Volume 1 (of 4) / With Introductions and Explanatory Notes

Uniform with British Orations
AMERICAN ORATIONS, to illustrate American Political History, edited, with introductions, by Alexander Johnston, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy in the College of New Jersey. 3 vols., 16 mo, $3.75. PROSE MASTERPIECES FROM MODERN ESSAYISTS, comprising single specimen essays from Irving, Leigh Hunt, Lamb, De Quincey, Landor, Sydney Smith, Thackeray, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Helps, Kingsley, Ruskin, Lowell, Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman, Gladstone, Newman, Leslie Stephen. 3 vols., 16 mo, bevelled boards, $3.75 and $4.50.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London
WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
BY CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS.
Videtisne quantum munus sit oratoris historia?
—Cicero, DeOratore , ii, 15
NEW YORK & LONDON G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS The Knickerbocker Press 1884
COPYRIGHT G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS 1884.
Press of G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York
TO A. D. A.
The three small volumes here offered to the public have been prepared in the hope that they would be of some service in showing the great currents of political thought that have shaped the history of Great Britain during the past two hundred and fifty years. The effort has been not so much to make a collection of the most remarkable specimens of English eloquence, as to bring together the most famous of those oratorical utterances that have changed, or here tended to change, the course of English history.