LIST OF ORATIONS

[Against Crowning Demosthenes]	Aeschines
[Against Eratosthenes]	Lysias
[Against the Tory Government]	William E. Gladstone
[At His Brother’s Grave]	Robert G. Ingersoll
[Cuba Must Be Free]	John M. Thurston
[Digging for the Thought]	John Ruskin
[Education]	Horace Mann
[Encomium on Evagoras]	Isocrates
[Eulogy of General Grant]	Dean Farrar
[Eulogy of President Garfield]	James G. Blaine
[Eulogy of Webster]	Rufus Choate
[Evidence and Precedents in Law]	Thomas Erskine
[Historical Reading]	Arthur James Balfour
[Inaugural Address]	Theodore Roosevelt
[In Favor of the Peloponnesian War]	Pericles
[Judicial Injustices]	Charles Sumner
[Liberty or Death]	Patrick Henry
[Menexenus and Others Against Dicaeogenes and Leochares]	Isaeus
[On Leaving Springfield]	Abraham Lincoln
[On the Foote Resolution]	Robert Young Hayne
[On the Murder of Lovejoy]	Wendell Phillips
[On Resigning from the Senate]	Robert Toombs
[On the Murder of Herodes]	Antiphon
[On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators]	Cato the Younger
[On the Treatment of the Catiline Conspirators]	Caesar
[On Withdrawing from the Union]	Jefferson Davis
[Oration Against Leocrates]	Lycurgus
[Oration on the Crown]	Demosthenes
[Our Country]	Edwin G. Lawrence
[Peace Between Labor and Capital]	John Haynes Holmes
[Robert Burns]	George William Curtis
[Speech Against Athenogenes]	Hyperides
[Speech in Support of the Oppian Law]	Cato the Censor
[Speech on the Mysteries]	Andocides
[Speech to His Troops]	Catiline
[Speech to the Conspirators]	Catiline
[Sumner and the South]	L. Q. C. Lamar
[The Birth of an Orator]	John Haynes Holmes
[The Blind Preacher]	William Wirt
[“The Cross of Gold” Speech]	William J. Bryan
[The First Olynthiac]	Demosthenes
[The First Oration Against Veres]	Cicero
[The “House Divided Against Itself” Speech]	Abraham Lincoln
[The Perfect Orator]	Richard B. Sheridan
[The Permanency of Empire]	Wendell Phillips
[“The Seventh of March” Speech]	Daniel Webster
[The Strength of the American Government]	John Bright

Transcriber’s Notes.

The break between pages 1 and 2 is in the word “employs”: em|ploys. In this and all other cases, the whole word was moved to the earlier page.
The break between pages 11 and 12 is in the word “contrary”: con|trary.
On page 24, set the citation of a legal matter, People vs. Durant, in Italic.
On page 33, two single line examples were set in body text. The Transcriber has made them block quotes to match the other examples on that page.
On page 36, change “dryest” to “driest.”
The break between pages 51 and 52 is in the word “language”: lan|guage.
On page 55, the Transcriber capitalized the word “Christianity” in a Daniel Webster quotation. The word was capitalized correctly in the same text that is part of a longer quotation on page 61.
On page 58, the original text has a sentence that ends as follows: “. . . we must, in order to retain the concluding series, give ‘ask’ the rising inflection, ‘knock’ the falling, ‘seek’ the falling, ‘find’ the rising, ‘knock’ the falling, and ‘opened’ the falling.” The Transcriber corrected the first “knock” to “given” because the text under discussion is “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened unto you.”
On page 59, change “huzza” to “huzzah.”
The break between pages 69 and 70 is in the word “attachment”: attach|ment.
On page 75, change “deprived of his honor” to “honour” to correspond with “favour” in the same paragraph.
The break between pages 78 and 79 is in the word “besieged”: be|sieged.
The break between pages 103 and 104 is in the word “considered”: con|sidered.
On page 108, change “Wittenagemote” to “Witenagemot.”
On page 114, change “huzzas” to “huzzahs.”
The break between pages 115 and 116 is in the word “temporary”: tem|porary.
The break between pages 124 and 125 is in the word “following”: fol|lowing.
On page 127, change “Immediately voice is produced . . .“ to “Immediately as voice is produced . . . .”
The break between pages 130 and 131 is in the word “magnificent”: mag|nificent.
The break between pages 148 and 149 is in the word “audiences”: audi|ences.
The break between pages 151 and 152 is in the word “carefully”: care|fully.
On page 164, change the question mark after “I am sadly deficient” to a period.
On page 165, change “indicated me for homicide” to “indicted.”
On page 193, change the question mark after “witness of his crimes” to a period.
On page 204, the word “betrothals” was misspelled “bethrothals” in the sentence “Thus the law makes just betrothals valid, and unjust ones it declares invalid.”
The break between pages 211 and 212 is in the word “Menexenus”: Menexe|nus.
The break between pages 214 and 215 is in the word “Leochares”: Leo|chares.
The break between pages 220 and 221 is in the word “dishonor”: dis|honor.
The break between pages 223 and 224 is in the word “hallowed”: hal|lowed.
On page 237, change “Midias’ anger” to “Meidias’ anger.”
The break between pages 241 and 242 is in the word “descendants”: descend|ants.
The break between pages 247 and 248 is in the word “overbearing”: over|bearing.
On page 260, change “tribunitian” to “tribunician.”
On page 265, change “Uticeusus” to “Uticensis.”
In the oration of Cato the Younger, the term “Conscript Fathers” referring to the members of the Roman Senate, is not capitalized in the original on pages 265 or 266. These have been made consistent with the initial-capped references on page 269 and following.
On page 268, change “hesitate how to act” to “hesitate now to act.”
On page 269, change “Cathegus” to “Cethegus.”
The break between pages 273 and 274 is in the word “putting”: put|ting.
On page 274, in the Caesar oration, this sentence appears in the original: “But in a large state there arise may men of various dispositions.” The word “may” has been corrected to “many.”
The break between pages 274 and 275 is in the word “borrowed”: bor|rowed.
The break between pages 281 and 282 is in the word “manner”: man|ner.
On page 285, change “proquestor” to “proquaestor.”
On page 292, change “edileship” to “aedileship.”
On page 302, change the word “equalled” to “equaled.”
On page 310, set “On the Clay Compromise” in title case small caps rather than lower case small caps.
The break between pages 312 and 313 is in the word “perfectly”: per|fectly.
On page 314, change “McDowel” to “McDowell” and change the question mark after “remarks to the press” to a period.
The break between pages 323 and 324 is in the unit “slave-trade”: slave-|trade.
On page 325, the period at the end of the final sentence of Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech was missing from the original.
The break between pages 330 and 331 is in the word “principles”: prin|ciples.
The break between pages 335 and 336 is in the word “Colonies”: Col|onies.
The break between pages 338 and 339 is in the word “Constitution”: Con|stitution.
The break between pages 341 and 342 is in the word “confederates”: con|federates.
The break between pages 345 and 346 is in the word “courageously”: coura|geously.
On page 346, change “memories indulged of the past or the dead” to “memories indulged of the past or of the dead” (insert second “of”).
On page 355, the original text of the Robert Burns eulogy uses the word “woos,” spelled “wooes,” and “rhythmic,” spelled “rythmic.” The Transcriber modernized the spelling of both words.
The break between pages 360 and 361 is in the word “unreplying”: unre|plying.
On page 367, change “crystalize” to “crystallize.”
On page 381, there is a printing defect in the copy of the original available to the Transcriber. One sentence reads: “All his internal powers are at wo__; all his external, testify their energies.” The Transcriber has inferred that the incomplete word is “work.” Confirmation from another copy of the original would be most appreciated.
On page 387, a reference to the Decalogue, referring to The Ten Commandments of the Bible, was not capitalized in the original. The Transcriber capitalized it.
The break between pages 391 and 392 is in the word “opening”: open|ing.
On page 392, in the “opening sentence” paragraph, second sentence, insert double quotes around first instance of the word “right.”
The break between pages 392 and 393 is in the word “positive”: posi|tive.
On page 394, change “Magna Charta” to “Magna Carta.”
On page 395, insert a warning of a sensitive word in the sixth paragraph of the subsequent oration.
The break between pages 395 and 396 is in the word “President”: Presi|dent.
On page 396, change “Magna Charta“ to “Magna Carta” and “Bastile” to “Bastille.”
The break between pages 404 and 405 is in the word “instances”: in|stances.
On page 415, change “Dacaeogenes” to “Dicaeogenes.”
On page 416, change “Roberts Burns” to “Robert Burns.”