World's Best Orations, Volume 4
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78 chapters · 19 h 36 min · English
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Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel! Do we not all feel the magic of the power, and when occasionally we are permitted to listen to a great orator how completely we lose ourselves and yield in willing submission to the imperious and impetuous flow of his speech!
We have not confined ourselves to any one profession or field of eloquence. The pulpit, the bar, the halls of legislation, and the popular assembly have each and all been called upon for their best contributions. The single test has been, is it oratory? the single question, is there eloquence? The reader and student of every class will therefore find within these pages that which will satisfy his particular taste and desire in the matter of oratory. - Summary by David J. Brewer
Chapters
1 Dictators in American Politics Part 1 - Henry Clay 22 min 2 Dictators in American Politics Part 2 - Henry Clay 18 min 3 On the Expunging Resolutions - Henry Clay 9 min 4 On the Seminole War - Henry Clay 13 min 5 The Emancipation of South America - Henry Clay 32 min 6 «The American System» and the Home Market - Henry Clay 34 min 7 In Favor of a Paternal Policy of Internal Improvements - Henry Clay 12 min 8 For «Free Trade and Seamen's Rights» - Henry Clay 12 min 9 The Greek Revolution - Henry Clay 8 min 10 The Noblest Public Virtue - Henry Clay 5 min 11 Sixty Years of Sectionalism - Henry Clay 29 min 12 The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and «Expansion» - John M. Clayton 18 min 13 Justice the Supreme Law of Nations - John M. Clayton 4 min 14 Cuba and «Manifest Destiny» - Jeremiah Clemens 17 min 15 Democracies and Subject Colonies - Cleon 9 min 16 First Inaugural Address - Grover Cleveland 15 min 17 Federal Power and Local Rights - De Witt Clinton 10 min 18 Against the Military Spirit - De Witt Clinton 22 min 19 «Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!» - Howell Cobb 9 min 20 The Man on the Tower - William Cobbett 14 min 21 Free Trade with All Nations - Richard Cobden 32 min 22 Small States and Great Achievements - Richard Cobden 7 min 23 Answering William J. Bryan - William Bourke Cockran 19 min 24 Prosecuting Sir Walter Raleigh - Sir Edward Coke 20 min 25 The Sacredness of Matrimony - John Duke Coleridge 15 min 26 The Confiscation of Rebel Property - Schuyler Colfax 11 min 27 Nominating General Grant for a Third Term - Roscoe Conkling 16 min 28 The Stalwart Standpoint - Roscoe Conkling 16 min 29 Against Senator Sumner - Roscoe Conkling 4 min 30 Free Speech Necessary for Good Government - Benjamin Constant 14 min 31 Ultimate America Part 1 - Joseph Cook 18 min 32 Ultimate America Part 2 - Joseph Cook 16 min 33 Answering Patrick Henry - Francis Corbin 25 min 34 Against Dismembering Mexico Part 1 - Thomas Corwin 25 min 35 Against Dismembering Mexico Part 2 - Thomas Corwin 21 min 36 Eloquence and the Fine Arts - Victor Cousin 26 min 37 Liberty an Inalienable Right - Victor Cousin 7 min 38 The Foundations of Law - Victor Cousin 11 min 39 True Politics - Victor Cousin 10 min 40 Against the Iron-Clad Oath - Samuel Sullivan Cox 29 min 41 The Sermon on the Mount - Samuel Sullivan Cox 8 min 42 Stephen A. Douglas and His Place in History - Samuel Sullivan Cox 11 min 43 His Speech at the Stake - Thomas Cranmer 15 min 44 Against the Fear of Death - Thomas Cranmer 3 min 45 Forgiveness of Injuries - Thomas Cranmer 4 min 46 The Issue and Control of Money under the Constitution - William Harris Crawford 12 min 47 At the Unveiling of Garibaldi's Statue - Francesco Crispi 12 min 48 Socialism and Discontent - Francesco Crispi 7 min 49 Henry Clay and the Nineteenth-Century Spirit - John Jordan Crittenden 17 min 50 Against Warring on the Weak - John Jordan Crittenden 10 min 51 A Raccoon in a Bag - David Crockett 9 min 52 Debating Whether or Not to Become King of England - Oliver Cromwell 23 min 53 Against Monopolies - Sir John Culpeper 11 min 54 In the Case of Justice Johnson: Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 1 - John Philpot Curran 25 min 55 In the Case of Justice Johnson: Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 2 - John Philpot Curran 32 min 56 In the Case of Justice Johnson: Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 3 - John Philpot Curran 20 min 57 In the Case of Justice Johnson: Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 4 - John Philpot Curran 27 min 58 In the Case of Justice Johnson: Civil Liberty and Arbitrary Arrests Part 5 - John Philpot Curran 22 min 59 For Peter Finnerty and Free Speech - John Philpot Curran 8 min 60 The Diversions of a Marquis - John Philpot Curran 11 min 61 Against Pensions - John Philpot Curran 9 min 62 England and English Liberties: In the case of Rowan - John Philpot Curran 13 min 63 The Liberties of the Indolent - John Philpot Curran 7 min 64 His Farewell to the Irish Parliament - John Philpot Curran 15 min 65 On Government by Attachment - John Philpot Curran 15 min 66 Presidential Criticisms of Congress - Benjamin Robbins Curtis 17 min 67 His Sovereignty Under His Hat - George William Curtis 8 min 68 Wendell Phillips as a History-Maker - George William Curtis 11 min 69 The Primordial Rights of the Universal People - Caleb Cushing 23 min 70 England and America in China - Caleb Cushing 5 min 71 The Extermination of the Indians - Caleb Cushing 14 min 72 Unshackled Living - Cyprian 20 min 73 The Infinite Artifices of Nature - Cyril 12 min 74 «The Pennsylvania Idea» - George M. Dallas 18 min 75 The Secret of True Greatness - Peter Damiani 5 min 76 New Testament History as Allegory - Peter Damiani 4 min 77 At the Dedication of the Washington Monument - John W. Daniel 20 min 78 Was Jefferson Davis a Traitor? - John W. Daniel 21 min
