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Orations of British orators : including biographical and critical sketches

Julian Hawthorne (Writer of introduction)
Print Book, English, [©1900]
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The Colonial Press, New York, [©1900]
speeches (documents)
2 volumes (viii, 453 pages ; iv, 449 pages) : frontispieces (portraits), plates, facsimiles ; 24 cm
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The Ploughers / Hugh Latimer
Speech at the stake / Thomas Cranmer
Prayer / John Knox
The Certainty of perpetuity of faith in the elect / Richard Hooker
Sin / John Donne
On the condition of England under the Duke of Buckingham / Sir John Eliot
Speech when impeached for high treason / The Earl of Strafford (Thomas Wentworth)
Speech on the dissolution of parliament / Oliver Cromwell
How far examples are to be followed ; An ill match well broken off / Thomas Fuller
Speech on the bill of attainder against Lord Strafford / George Digby, Earl of Bristol
The Marriage ring / Jeremy Taylor
divine grace and holy obedience / Tobert Leighton
The Heavenly footman / John Bunyan
Slander / Isaac Barrow
Doing good / John Tillotson
Union of England and Scotland / Lord Belhaven (Joh Hamilton) 00 On a motion for his removal / Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
The Gin act / Lord Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
On seeing him that is invisible / Philip Doddridge
Free grace / John Wesley
On the right of England to tax America / Lord Mansfield (William Murray)
On the right of taxing America / William Pitt, Lord Chatham
On conciliation with AMerica / Edmund Burke
On the rejection of Bonaparte's overtures of peace / Charles James Fox
On the liberty of the press / John Philpot Curran
The rights of the Irish people / Henry Grattan
The Limitations of free speech / Lord Thomas ERskine
Speech at the trial of Warren Hastings / Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress