. 108 BURKE, To Bristol Electors, ADAMS, JOHN, Supposed Speech of, . 289 | Byron, LORD, Supposed Address to Greeks, 151 ADAMS, J. &., The Declaration, E-CHINES, Denunciation of Demosthenes, 163 Compensations of Imagination, 64 . 523 CarUS MARIUS, Speech of, . ALLSTON, America to Britain, . . 438 Calhoun, Prospect of War, The Work-shop and Camp, . 101 CAMPBELL, Hallowed Ground, Saladdin and Malek Adhel, . 525 A YTONY, MARK, on Cæsar's Death, ATTOCY, Execution of Montrose, . 459 CANNING, War with France, : BARBE, ISAAC, America's Obligations, 210 BeATTIE, Life beyond the Tomb, BEALFOY, Parliamentary Innovations, Bv. KwITH, Spirit of the Age against War, 49 CANULEIUS, On the Patricians, . BYYNETT, California's Prospects, . BETHUNE, Future Empire of our Language, 63 CATILINE, to his Army, . RDMAS, Problem for the U.S., . . 78 Defiance to the Senate, 495 165 CHALMERS, False Coloring lent to War, 57 Translation, . . 167 CHANNING, Distinction of a Nation, . 65 Parliament Reform, . 256 CHAPIN, Science friendly to Freedom, 62 BROWNING, How News came to Ghent, . . 489 CHATEAUBRIAND, Nature Proclaims a Deity, 92 . 107 CHATHAM, EARL OF, Reply to Walpole, . BROTTS, MARCTS, On Cæsar's Death, BURS E, Magnanimity in Politics, Despotism Enrighteous, ...218 CHILD, Mrs. L. M., Speech of Otis, . 316 Page . 238 . 231 .242 275 66 • 291 . 131 66 Page 235 . 169 " ' Washington's Foreign Policy, . 170 " Liberty is Strengtb 238 239 . 317 297 . 318 37 . 117 . 302 301 Goethe, Sincerity the Soul of Eloquence, 223 87 Reply to Flood, . 467 National Gratitude, . Catholic Disqualifications, . 2:26 120 Heaven on the side of Principle, 2:28 448 Against Corry, Union with Great Britain, The Catholic Question, 2:29 305 230 454 Sectarian Tyranny, . 420 Translations, :: 103, 109, 110, 111 GRIMKE, The Sword, 156 The Federal Constitution, . 275 Hayne, Reply to Webster, The South in 1776, The South in 1812, . 97 . 109 .. 403 . 110 450 . 111 . 119 481 . 119 482 Bernardo del Carpio, 247 Casabianca, 215 Rocks of my Country, 246 The Two Homes, 353 Invocation, . 353 HENRY, PATRICK, Resistance, War Inevitable, Return of Fugitives, 99 396 HOFFMAN, Fulton's Invention, . 439 . 159 City Men in the Country, 559 533 50 108 llector's Rebuke, . 166 Hector's Exploit, Hector Slain, 60 Hoyt, The World for Sale, IIUGHES, Belshazzar's Feast, 409 • 425 Hoco, V., The United States of Europe, 56 “' Practical Religious Instruction, . 186 " Necessity of Religion, 88 . 188 90 u Liberty of the Press, 357 ..190 43 191 371 93 The True King, 61 HIUSKISSON, The Conservative Innovator, .243 119 311 Suppogeri Indian Speech, . 552 JEFFERSON, The Strongest Government, 297 402 66 . 411 CG . 354 . 344 66 . 456 • 407 . 464 64 66 337 66 175 . 457 66 . 153 380 . 422 . 103 Page 1 Page 59 . 99 129 396 131 . 122 Destruction of the Philistines, Satan's Encounter with Death, . Hymn of our First Parents, . . 5:36 MIRABEAU, Against the Nobles, &c., • 395 172 Disobedience to the Assembly, 173 Reply, ::::: 17+ . 473 On being Suspected, Eulogium on Franklin, Church and State, . • 177 . 138 . 451 MONTGOMERY, JAMES, Love of Country, . 72 The Common Lot, 75 Patriot's Pass-word, 139 4:27 486 . 299 Free Navigation, . 300 385 150 313 94 313 NICHOL, Day conceals, . 561 Translation - True Wisdom, . 462 Translation from Psalms, 463 257 ..120 Irish Disturbance Bill, 258 61 294 511 . 205 77 404 Patten, The Seminole's Defiance, 460 50 279 . 107 537 304 4:29 PITT, American War Denounced, 475 Attempt to make him Resign, 143 Pope, The Order of Nature, . 267 469 459 . 270 . 384 270 PRESTON, Eloquence and Logic, 450 195 552 192 . 303 77 QUINCY, J., JR., British Aggressions, .392 Greek Question, . .. 306 302 Virginia Constitution, . 307 105 141 133 180 Morality the Basis, 151 321 . 152 09 21 Page 66 . 277 . 431 . • 465 66 . 179 66 • 432 Page . 117 115 84 Copyright, 276 429 Literary Property, . International Copyright, . 279 66 ..509 Van Artevelde to Men of Ghent, . 145 . . 511 485 .. 512 Van den Bosch and Artevelde, . 5:20 113 103 Universal Hymn, 415 Titus QUINTICS, Speech of, 491 ... 185 ..183 455 196 173 94 Terrorism of Jacobins, 6S 120 51 19 On Gesture, 33 Failure of his Method, . 22 196 Against Pitt, ...197 France and the U.S., ..447 294 . 146 95 53 201 Supposed Speech of J. Adams, . 298 Opposition, 326 263 327 .264 Sympathy with South America, 328 . 507 . 3:29 210 330 211 331 241 Resistance to Oppression, Peaceable Secession, 333 Clay's Resolutions, . 333 . 58 334 Matches and over Matches, 335 8. Carolina and Mass., . 336 .. 546 335 547 Guilt cannot keep its own Secret, 369 ..517 389 . 518 361 Fourth of July, 519 Apostrophe to Washington, . 394 . 556 Standard of the Constitution, .390 22 45 Conquest of Americans, . 349 WIRT, Instigators of Treason, 146 Burr and Blennerhassett, 305 42 . 124 WOLFE, GEN., To the Army before Quebec, 147 80 WOLFE, Charles, Defence of Poetry, 89 18 Burial of Sir J. Moore, . 152 71 Yorxg, Time's Midnight Voice, Frivolous Pleasures, 97 510 | YRIARTE, The Monkey and Magpie, 534 . 193 THE STANDARD SPEAKER. KAM SCHatia INTRODUCTORY TREATISE. I. ORATORY. ORATORY, which has its derivation from the Latin verb oro, signifying to plead, to beseech, may be defined the art of producing persuasion or conviction by means of spoken discourse. The word eloquence, in its primary signification, as its etymology implies, had a single reference to public speaking ; but it is applied by Aristotle, as well as by modern writers, to compositions not intended for public delivery. A similar extension of meaning has been given to the word rhetoric, which, in its etymological sense, means the art of the orator, but now comprehends the art of prose composition generally. ORATORY AMONG THE ANCIENTS. It is apparent, from the speeches attributed by Homer to the chiefs of the Tiad, as well as by the commendations which he bestows on Nestor and Ulysses for their eloquence, that the art of Oratory was early understood and honored in Greece. But it was not till Demosthenes appeared that Grecian eloquence reached its perfection. Demosthenes, who, by the consent of all antiquity, was the prince of orators, still maintains his preëminence. Of his style, Hume has happily said : “ It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense ; it is vehement reasoning, without any appearance of art ; it is disdain, anger, boldness, freedom, involved in a continued stream of argument; and of all human productions, the orations of Demosthenes present to us the models which approach the nearest to perfection.” It is related of this great orator, that, in his first address to the people, he was laughed at and interrupted by their clamors. He had a weakness of voice and a stammering propensity which rendered it difficult for him to be understood. By immense labor, and an undaunted perseverance, he overcame these defects ; and subsequently, by the spell of his eloquence, exercised an unparalleled sway over that same people who had jeered at him when they first heard him speak in public. The speeches of Demosthenes were not extemporaneous. There were no writers of short-hand in his days ; and what was written could only come from the author himself. After the time of Demosthenes, Grecian eloquence, which was coëval with Grecian liberty, declined with the decay of the latter. In Rome, the military spirit, so incompatible with a high degree of civil freedom, long checked the |
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