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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V
Above all things the interest of your whole life depends on your being diligent.
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University
Thomas
Carlyle

The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V

Great Britain: III (1865–1906)

Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces delivered by 213 rhetoricians.

Contents

 Index to Authors
NEW YORK: FUNK AND WAGNALLS, 1906
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2002

Sir John Alexander Macdonald
On Canadian Confederation
Thomas Carlyle
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University
Goldwin Smith
The Secret Beyond Science
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
On the Principles of His Party
William Ewart Gladstone
On the Domestic and Foreign Affairs of England
Charles Bradlaugh
His Plea at the Bar of the House
Randolph Henry Spencer, Lord Churchill
His “Trust the People” Speech
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d Marquess of Salisbury
On the Desertion of Gordon in Egypt
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Men Made Rich by the Poverty of Christ
Augustine Birrell
The Distinction of Burke
James, Viscount of Bryce
On the Government of Ireland Bill
Arthur James, Earl of Balfour
On the Benefits of Reading
Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery
Robert Burns
Joseph Chamberlain
The True Conception of Empire
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
On the Death of Queen Victoria
Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Trade and the Empire
John, Viscount Morley
His Address at Pittsburg
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
I. On the Policy of the Liberal Party
II. His “The Duma Is Dead: Long Live the Duma,” Speech
Lord Robert Reid Loreburn
On the Policy of the English Liberals