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be Distinct and Deliberate"; "Let Your Pronunciation be Bold and Forcible"; "Acquire Compass and Variety in the Height of Your Voice"; "Pronounce Your Words with Propriety and Elegance"; "Pronounce Every Word Consisting of More Than One Syllable with its Proper Accent "; " In Every Sentence Distinguish the More Significant Words by a Natural, Forcible, and Varied Emphasis; Acquire a Just Variety of Pause and Inflection "; " Accompany the Emotions and Passions Which Your Words Express by Correspondent Tones, Looks, and Gestures."

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(Greece, c. 50 A. D.-(?) 109-112 On the Power of Speaking.

Erskine, Thomas, Baron (England, 1750-1823) 392
Degradation of Religion by Politics; Prec-

edents of Madness; The Age of Rea-
son."- Celebrated Passages.

Evarts, William Maxwell (American, 1818-) 393 The Wisdom of Second Thought.- Celebrated Passages.

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What Are We Here For?- Celebrated Passages.

Flechiér, Esprit

(France, 1632-1710) 396 The Pride of the Soldier.- Celebrated Passages. Flood, Henry

396

(Ireland, 1732-1791) On Grattan.- Celebrated Passages. Fox, Charles James (England, 1749-1806) 396 The Character of a Virtuous Man; The Tory System of Blood and Massacre *; "Happy Americans"; "Liberty Is Order! Liberty Is Strength: Vigor of Democratic Governments. - Celebrated Passages.

Franklin, Benjamin (American, 1706-1790) 397 Despotism and Popular Corruption; Prayer and Providence; "We Must Hang Together."- Celebrated Passages. Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore

(American, 1817-1885) 398 Self-Government in America.- Celebrated Passages.

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(American, 1675-1741) 404 Heresy in Law as Well as in Religion; Law and Liberty.- Celebrated Passages. Hammond, James H. (American, 1807-1864) 404 Mudsills; Cotton Is King. - Celebrated Passages.

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Henderson, John B.

(American, Contemporaneous) 407 The Right to Make Foolish Speeches.Celebrated Passages.

Henry, Patrick (American, 1736-1799) 407 "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"; A Prophecy of Progress; "Why Should We Fetter Commerce?" - Celebrated Passages.

Herder, Johann Gottfried von

(Germany, 1744-1803) 409 "It Is No Tenet of Religion to Abjure Thinking.". "Celebrated Passages.

Higginson, John

(England, 1616-1708) 409 Cent Per Cent in New England.- Celebrated Passages.

Hill, Benjamin Harvey (American, 1823-1882) 409
"I Was Born a Slaveholder." - Celebrated
Passages.
Hilliard, H. W.

(American, 1808-1892) 409
Constitutional Government; Manhood. -
Celebrated Passages.
Hoar, George Frisbie

(American, 1826-) 410 The Puritan.- Celebrated Passages. Hobbes, Thomas (England, 1588-1679) 185-146 Analysis and Synopsis of Aristotle's "Rhetoric." Of the Original of Elocution and Pronunciation; Of the Choice of Words and Epithets; Of the Things That Make an Oration Flat; Of a Similitude; Of the Purity of Language; Of the Amplitude and Tenuity of Language; Of the Convenience or Decency of Elocution; Of Two Sorts of Styles; Of Those Things That Grace an Oration, and Make it Delightful; In What Manner an Oration is Graced by the Things Aforesaid; Of the Difference Between the Style To Be Used in Writing, and the Style To Be Used in Pleading; Of the Parts of an Oration and Their Order; Of the Proem; Places of Crimination and Purgation; Of the Narration; Of Proof, or Confirmation, and Refutation; Of Interrogations, Answers, and Jests; Of the Peroration. Holborne, Sir Robert (England, c. 1594-1647) 410 Against Ship Money.-Celebrated Passages. Holmes, Oliver Wendell

(American, 1809-1894) 410 Boston the Hub.- Celebrated Passages.

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(England, 1808-1892) 423

Meredith, Sir W.

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(England) 428

Government by the Gallows.- Celebrated
Passages.
Miller, Hugh

(Scotland, 1802-1856) 429
The Procession of Being; The Sown Seeds
of Life.- Celebrated Passages.
Milton, John
(England, 1608-1674) 481-484
"Hail, Horrors, Hail!"; Satan to the
Fallen Angels; Satan Addresses the
Council of War; Moloch's Speech for
War; Belial's Speech Opposing War;
Milton's Apostrophe to Light; Satan's
Address to the Sun.-Celebrated Imagin-
ary Addresses and Soliloquies.

"An Eagle Mewing Her Mighty Youth." 429
- Celebrated Passages.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Honoré Riquetti, Comte de
(France, 1749-1791) 429
Educating Conscience a Duty; Announc-
ing the Death of Franklin; "And Yet
You Deliberate!" "From the Capitol to
the Tarpeian Rock."- Celebrated Pas-
sages.

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Speaking: The Five Divisions of Ora-
torical Art; On the Three Kinds of Ora-
tory; On Declamation; How to Culti-
vate Good Delivery; The Oratory of the
Bar; The Five Divisions of an Oration;
The Exordium-How to Begin a Speech;
Second Part of a Speech-The State-
ment of Facts; Digressions in Speaking;
Proposition, Partition, and Argument;
How to Close a Speech-The Peroration;
The Art of Remembering in Oratory.
Celebrated Passages:

Brilliancy in Oratory; Pectus et Vis
Mentis; Oratory and Virtue.

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