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Title: The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)

Author: Various

Release Date: November 27, 2004 [EBook #14182]

Language: English

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THE WORLD'S BEST ORATIONS, Vol. 1 (of 10)

THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke. Bart., Member of
Parliament--Author of 'Greater Britain,' etc., London, England.

William Draper Lewis, PH. D., Dean of the Department of Law,
University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

William P. Trent, M.A., Professor of English and History, Colombia
University, in the city of New York.

W. Stuart Symington, Jr., PH. D., Professor of the Romance Languages,
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.

Alcee Fortier, Lit.D., Professor of the Romance Languages,
Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

William Vincent Byars, Journalist, St Louis, Mo.

Richard Gottheil, PH. D., Professor of Oriental Languages,
Columbia University, in the city of New York.

Austin H. Merrill, A.M., Professor of Elocution, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn.

Sheldon Jackson. D. D., LL. D., Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.

A. Marshall Elliott, PH.D. LL. D., Professor of the Romance Languages,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

John W. Million, A.M., President of Hardin College, Mexico, Mo.

J. Raymond Brackett. PH. D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts,
and Professor of Comparative Literature, University Of
Colorado, Boulder, Colo.

W. F. Peirce. M.A., LL. D., President Of Kenyox College, Gambier,
Ohio.

S. Plantz, PH.D., D. D., President of Lawrence University,
Appleton, Wis.

George Tayloe Winston, LL.D., President of the University Of Texas,
Austin, Texas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOL. I

Preface: Justice David J. Brewer

The Oratory Of Anglo-Saxon Countries: Prof. Edward A. Allen

ABELARD, PIERRE 1079-1142
The Resurrection of Lazarus
The Last Entry into Jerusalem
The Divine Tragedy

ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS 1807-1886
The States and the Union

ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, JUNIOR 1835-