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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. VII
Continental Europe (380–1906)
| Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces delivered by 213 rhetoricians. |
Contents
| Index to Authors |
| NEW YORK: FUNK AND WAGNALLS, 1906 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2002 |
- Part I: Early Christianity
- Saint John Chrysostom
- The Blessings of Death
- Saint Augustine
- On the Lord’s Prayer
- Peter Abelard
- The Divine Tragedy
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Why Another Crusade?
- Part II: The Reformation
- Girolamo Savonarola
- I. A Report on His Embassy to the King
- II. After His Excommunication
- Huldreich Zwingli
- On Mercenary Soldiers
- Martin Luther
- Before the Diet of Worms
- Philip Melanchthon
- On the Death of Luther
- John Calvin
- On Suffering Persecution
- Part III: Modern France
- Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
- On the Death of the Great Condé
- Bourdaloue
- On the Passion of Christ
- François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon
- True and False Simplicity
- Jean Baptiste Massillon
- Of a Malignant Tongue
- Camille Desmoulins
- Better to Die than not Live Free
- Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau
- I. Necker’s Financial Plan
- II. On Being Accused of Treasonable Relations to the Court
- Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave
- Against Majority Absolutism
- Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
- On the Situation in France
- Georges Jacques Danton
- I. “Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare”
- II. On Liberty of Worship
- III. On Taxing the Rich
- Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre
- I. Against Granting the King a Trial
- II. His Last Speech
- Jean Paul Marat
- In His Own Defense
- Pierre Joseph Cambon
- On the Situation in France
- Louis de Saint-Just
- Invective Against Danton
- Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
- On the Heroism of the “Vengeur’s” Sailors
- Napoleon I
- I. To the Army in Italy
- II. To the Army of Italy Again
- III. Speech to the Directory
- IV. During the Egyptian Campaign
- V. On the Anniversary of Austerlitz
- VI. To His Soldiers at Fontainebleau
- VII. After the Return from Elba
- Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
- Against Setting Up an Emperor
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
- To a Deputation of Poles
- Victor Marie Hugo
- In Defense of His Son
- Léon Gambetta
- Education for the Peasantry in France
- Paul Henri Benjamin, Baron d’Estournelles de Constant
- France and the United States
- Jean Jaurès
- In the Debate on Socialism with Clemenceau
- Georges Clemenceau
- In the Debate on Socialism with Jaurès
- Part IV: Italy
- Giuseppe Mazzini
- To the Young Men of Italy
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- To His Soldiers
- Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour
- Rome as the Capital of United Italy
- Part V: Modern Germany, Hungary and Spain
- Frederick II
- I. To His Generals Before Invading Silesia
- II. To His Generals Before the Battle of Leuthen
- Otto von Bismarck
- The Canossa Speech
- Louis Kossuth
- On His Welcome to New York
- Emilio Castelar y Ripoll
- Plea for a Republic in Spain
- Count Albert Apponyi
- On the Death of Louis Kossuth