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

Press of
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
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TO
A. D. A.

CONTENTS.

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Sir John Eliot	[1]
Sir John Eliot	[13]
On the Condition of England under the Duke of Buckingham. Delivered in House of Commons, June 3, 1628.
John Pym	[27]
John Pym	[37]
On the Subject of Grievances in the Reign of Charles I. House of Commons, April 5, 1640.
Lord Chatham	[85]
Lord Chatham	[98]
On the Right of Taxing America. House of Commons, January 14, 1766.
Lord Chatham	[120]
On an Address to the Throne concerning Affairs in America. House of Lords, November 18, 1777.
Lord Mansfield	[143]
Lord Mansfield	[150]
On the Right of England to Tax America. House of Lords, February 3, 1766.
Edmund Burke	[172]
Mr. Burke	[182]
On Moving Resolutions for Conciliation with America. House of Commons, March 22, 1775.
Illustrative Notes	[299]

PREFACE.

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.