The Book of Oratory: Compiled for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and the Higher Classes of Select and Parish Schools

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D. & J. Sadlier & Company, 1871 - Elocution - 648 pages

Contents

PART IELOCUTIOi
11
Monk Felix
13
Lord Straffords Defence
14
Emotions on Returning to the United States 1837
20
THE VOICE
21
26 The Suliote Mother
26
VARIATIONS OF VOICE
27
Baron Geramb
32
ORATORICAL
255
Demosthenes
261
Senatorial Denunciation of Richard Cromwell Sir Henry Vane
281
Hotspur
288
Henry Grattan
301
J Augustus Shea
321
Judge Gaston
384
The Foundation of National Character
399

EMPHASIS
35
Italy
38
PAUSES
41
Summer Hymn
44
THE STUDY OF EXPRESSION
48
American History
51
English Operatives in Manufacturing Districts Southey
54
The American Republic
57
The Federal Constitution 1787
59
Song of the Stars Bryant
62
American Innovations
65
The Parting of Marmion and Douglas Scott
69
The South during the Revolution
71
Extempore or Sight Reading
75
The Folly of Disunion
77
The Permanence of American Liberty
83
The Evils of
89
The Cause of the Union
95
F MCarthy
129
From the German of Scheffler
144
Manahan
162
B F Taylor
171
O for the Wings of the Wind to Wander Judge Arrington
178
MacLeod
209
Butler
246
Winthrop
415
MISCELLANEOUS
421
Addison
453
Regulus to the Roman Senate
463
Liry
469
Before Vicksburg
476
Macbriars Speech to the Scotch Insurgents
483
Flodden Field
489
Edinburgh after Flodden
496
Napoleon to the Soldiers at Fontainebleau
503
Edward Everett
513
The Spirit of Democracy in America and in Europe Lacordaire
520
A Storm at
527
Sydney Smith
536
Legaré
544
Richard Ternan
553
F MCarthy
568
Martyrdom of St Theodosia
589
St Ephrem of Edessa
607
The Great Condé
617
De la Motte Fouqué
625
Song of the Angels over the Skeptics Conversion
635
Paradise
642
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