Masterpieces of Modern OratoryEdwin Du Bois Shurter The fifteen orations in this volume are intended to furnish models for students of Oratory, Argumentation, and Debate. For the most part the orations are given without abridgement. In making the selection the aim has been to include only orations that (1) deal with subjects of either contemporary or historical interest, (2) were delivered by men eminent as orators, and (3) are of inherent literary value. There are of course many orators and orations in modern times that fulfill these tests, but it is believed that the orations selected are fairly representative. A further aim has been to secure such variety in the selections as to cover in a single volume the fields of deliberative, forensic, pulpit, and demonstrative oratory, and so to meet the needs of classes both in argumentation and oratorical composition.--Provided by editor in Preface. |
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... learned friend on the floor , who condescends to mark what I say for animad- version , will disdain that ground . He has heard , as well as I , that when great honors and great emoluments do not win over 30 this knowledge to the service ...
... learned friend on the floor , who condescends to mark what I say for animad- version , will disdain that ground . He has heard , as well as I , that when great honors and great emoluments do not win over 30 this knowledge to the service ...
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... learned counsel for the prisoner has said truly that it is your individual duty to judge the prisoner ; that it is your 30 individual duty to determine his guilt or innocence ; and that you are to weigh the testimony with candor and ...
... learned counsel for the prisoner has said truly that it is your individual duty to judge the prisoner ; that it is your 30 individual duty to determine his guilt or innocence ; and that you are to weigh the testimony with candor and ...
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... learned head of the Suffolk Bar , Mr. Prescott , came down in aid of the officers of the government . This was 20 regarded as neither strange nor improper . The counsel for the prisoner , in that case , contented themselves with answer ...
... learned head of the Suffolk Bar , Mr. Prescott , came down in aid of the officers of the government . This was 20 regarded as neither strange nor improper . The counsel for the prisoner , in that case , contented themselves with answer ...
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... learned counsel have endeavored to persuade you , that there exists a prejudice against the persons accused of this murder . They would have you understand that it is not confined to this vicinity alone ; but that even the legislature ...
... learned counsel have endeavored to persuade you , that there exists a prejudice against the persons accused of this murder . They would have you understand that it is not confined to this vicinity alone ; but that even the legislature ...
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... learned counsel for the defendant take a some- what loftier flight still . They are more concerned , they assure us , for the law itself , than even for their client . Your decision in this case , they say , will stand as a precedent ...
... learned counsel for the defendant take a some- what loftier flight still . They are more concerned , they assure us , for the law itself , than even for their client . Your decision in this case , they say , will stand as a precedent ...
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Page 38 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Page 140 - It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.
Page 56 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; — they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 58 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest -wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 23 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 154 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 23 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 35 - ... empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 144 - ... in such a case we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.
Page 57 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.