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Title: Representative British Orations Volume 4 (of 4)

Editor: John B. Alden


Release date: October 15, 2018 [eBook #58102]

Language: English

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BRITISH ORATIONS

A selection of the more important and representative political addresses of the past two centuries, with biographical notes, critical comment, political, oratorical, and literary estimate.

Edited by Charles K. Adams, President of the University of Wisconsin. With an additional volume edited by John Alden.

Four volumes, each complete in itself and sold separately. Each, 12°, gilt top, $1.25.

The orators included are: Sir John Eliot, John Pym, Lord Chatham, Edmund Burke, Charles J. Fox, Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Erskine, George Canning, Lord Macaulay, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Lord Beaconsfield, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Mansfield, Daniel O’Connell, Lord Palmerston, Robert Lowe, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Rosebery.

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK & LONDON

REPRESENTATIVE
BRITISH ORATIONS

WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY
NOTES BY
JOHN ALDEN

Videtisne quantum munus sit oratoris historia?
—Cicero, De Oratore, ii, 15

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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press

Copyright, 1900
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press, New Rochelle, N. Y.