Representative British Orations Volume 3 (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
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NEW YORK & LONDON G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS The Knickerbocker Press 1884
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The subject of this sketch was born in London in 1770. When he was only one year old, the death of his father threw the responsibility of his training and education upon his mother. Dependent upon her own energies for the support of herself and her child, she at first established a small school in London, and a little later fitted herself for the stage, where she achieved considerable success.