The World's Great Speeches : Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition
Nearly 300 speeches offer provocative themes, historic parallels, and memorable quotations: Socrates, Julius Caesar, St. Francis, Martin Luther, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Fulton J. Sheen, Barbara Jordan, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Earl of Spencer, and many others. Includes 7 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940," "Farewell Address," "Gettysburg Address," "I Have a Dream," "Second Inaugural Address," "Speech to the Second Virginia Convention," and "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July."
eBook, English, 2012
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Dover Publications, Newburyport, 2012
1 online resource (1793 pages)
9780486132839, 0486132838
1058349216
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction; Contents; GREAT SPEECHES OF EARLIER TIMES; I Greece and Rome; PERICLES; Funeral Oration; SOCRATES; On His Condemnation to Death; ISOCRATES; On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia; DEMOSTHENES; On the Crown; The Second Oration Against Philip; CATO, THE ELDER; In Support of the Oppian Law; HANNIBAL; To His Soldiers; CICERO; First Oration Against Catiline; The Fourth Philippic; CATILINE; To the Conspirators; To His Troops; JULIUS CAESAR; On the Treatment of the Conspirators; CATO, THE YOUNGER; The Catilinarian Conspirators; MARK ANTONY. Oration on the Dead Body of Julius CaesarII The European Continent; ST. BERNARD; A Second Crusade; ST. FRANCIS; Sermon to the Birds; MARTIN LUTHER; Before the Diet of Worms; JOHN CALVIN; On Suffering Persecution; FREDERICK THE GREAT; Before Invading Silesia, 1740; Before the Battle of Leuthen, 1757; DESMOULINS; Advocating the Execution of Louis XVI; MIRABEAU; Against the Charge of Treason; DANTON; "To Dare Again, Ever to Dare!"; "Let France Be Free!"; MARAT; Defense Against the Charges; ROBESPIERRE; The Festival of the Supreme Being; NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. At the Beginning of the Italian CampaignOn Entering Milan; On Beginning the Russian Campaign; Farewell to the Old Guard; CARNOT; Against Imperialism; VICTOR HUGO; Voltaire; GIUSEPPE MAZZINI; To the Young Men of Italy; GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI; To His Soldiers; CAVOUR; Rome and Italy; LOUIS KOSSUTH; America's Welcome; LEON GAMBETTA; To the Delegates from Alsace; EMILE ZOLA; Appeal for Dreyfus; LEO XIII; Christian Democracy; OTTO VON BISMARCK; War and Armaments in Europe; BETHMANN-HOLLWEG; Germany and the War; KAISER WILHELM II; Address to the German People; JEAN JAURÈS; Last Speech; RENÉ Viviani. The Spirit of FranceCARDINAL MERCIER; Coronation Day Sermon; GEORGES CLEMENCEAU; One Aim: Victory; ALEXANDER KERENSKY; To Workingmen and Soldiers; LEON TROTZKY; To the Red Army; NIKOLAI LENIN; The Dictatorship of the Proletariat; MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH; Napoleon; ARISTIDE BRIAND; Naval Disarmament; III Great Britain and Ireland; OLIVER CROMWELL; On the Dissolution of Parliament; SIR ROBERT WALPOLE; On a Motion for His Removal; JOHN WESLEY; God's Love to Fallen Man; WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM; On the Right of Taxing America; EDMUND BURKE; Conciliation with America. Indictment of Warren HastingsRICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN; At the Trial of Warren Hastings; WILLIAM PITT; On His Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte; CHARLES JAMES FOX; On Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte; GEORGE CANNING; The Fall of Napoleon; THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY; On the Reform Bill; RICHARD COBDEN; The Effects of Protection on Agriculture; JOHN BRIGHT; The "Trent" Affair; BENJAMIN DISRAELI; Peace with Honor; WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE; On Domestic and Foreign Affairs; CARDINAL MANNING; Anti-Semitism; JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN; The British Empire; EMMELINE PANKHURST; Militant Suffragists
SIR EDWARD GREY