List of Orations

Against Crowning Demosthenes	Aeschines
Against Eratosthenes	Lysias
Against the Tory Government	William E. Gladstone
At His Brother’s Grave	Robert G. Ingersoll
Cuba Must Be Free	John M. Thurston
Digging for the Thought	John Ruskin
Education	Horace Mann
Encomium on Evagoras	Isocrates
Eulogy of General Grant	Dean Farrar
Eulogy of President Garfield	James G. Blaine
Eulogy of Webster	Rufus Choate
Evidence and Precedents in Law	Thomas Erskine
Historical Reading	Arthur James Balfour
Inaugural Address	Theodore Roosevelt
In Favor of the Peloponnesian War	Pericles
Judicial Injustices	Charles Sumner
Liberty or Death	Patrick Henry
Menexenus and Others Against Dicaeogenes and Leochares	Isaeus
On Leaving Springfield	Abraham Lincoln
On the Foote Resolution	Robert Young Hayne
On the Murder of Lovejoy	Wendell Phillips
On Resigning from the Senate	Robert Toombs
On the Murder of Herodes	Antiphon
On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators	Cato the Younger
On the Treatment of the Catiline Conspirators	Caesar
On Withdrawing from the Union	Jefferson Davis
Oration Against Leocrates	Lycurgus
Oration on the Crown	Demosthenes
Our Country	Edwin G. Lawrence
Peace Between Labor and Capital	John Haynes Holmes
Robert Burns	George William Curtis
Speech Against Athenogenes	Hyperides
Speech in Support of the Oppian Law	Cato the Censor
Speech on the Mysteries	Andocides
Speech to His Troops	Catiline
Speech to the Conspirators	Catiline
Sumner and the South	L. Q. C. Lamar
The Birth of an Orator	John Haynes Holmes
The Blind Preacher	William Wirt
“The Cross of Gold” Speech	William J. Bryan
The First Olynthiac	Demosthenes
The First Oration Against Veres	Cicero
The “House Divided Against Itself” Speech	Abraham Lincoln
The Perfect Orator	Richard B. Sheridan
The Permanency of Empire	Wendell Phillips
“The Seventh of March” Speech	Daniel Webster
The Strength of the American Government	John Bright

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