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(Ireland, c. 1729-1797) 213-221 Relation of Eloquence to the Sublime and Beautiful; Power of Eloquence; Words and Ideas; The Effect of Words; Language and Imagination;

Art in

Words; How Words Influence the Passions.

Celebrated Passages:

Collecting Taxes.in India Under Hastings; Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1788; Peroration Against Warren Hastings; Hyder Ali in the Carnatic; "Afraid of Being Too Much in the Right; Arbitrary Power Anarchical; Arbitrary Power and Conquest; Association of the Good; Charters, When Kept; Controlled Depravity Is Not Innocence"; Corruption and Disorder; "Difficulty will not Suffer us to be Superficial"; "Epidemical Fanaticism"; Esteem of the Wise and Good; Fire Bells as Disturbers of the Peace; Fitness for Freedom; Flattery, its InHampden's fluence; Government; Twenty Shillings; "Humiliation Cannot Degrade Humanity"; Hypocrisy ;

Cæsar, Julius Caius

355

(Rome, 100-44 B. C.) 360 Responsibilities of Greatness; Bad Precedents from Good Beginnings. - Celebrated Passages.

Cahill, Daniel W. (Irish-American, 1802-1864) 360 The Destruction of the World.- Cele

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Innovation and Confined Views; Judges and the Law; "Levelers Never Equalize"; Liberty of Individuals; "Liberty Nibbled Away for Expedients; Marie Antoinette as the Morning Star; Political Arithmetic; Pretenders; Property for the Fittest; Religion Makes Co-operation Possible; Revolutions at their Flood; Shame; Suspicion More Hurtful than Perfidy; "The Road to Eminence Ought Not to Be Made too Easy"; "Things that Are Not Practicable Are Not Desirable"; "Tribunals Fall with Peace"; Virtue Contagious as Well as Vice.

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Coin; Restlessness and Freedom; Re-
action from Liberty to Despotism; "I
Called the New World into Existence";
"Measures and Men."- Celebrated Pas-
sages.

Carlyle, Thomas
(Scotland, 1795-1881)
Healthiness and Holiness; Religion has
Higher than Civil Ends; Law Courts, or
Chimneys for Deviltry; Justice and
Success; You Will Have to Pay, My
Friend. - Celebrated Passages.
Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite

364

(France, 1753-1823) 365 On American Liberty. - Celebrated Passages.

Carpenter, Matthew Hale

(American, 1824-1881) 865 National and Individual Life Compared ; Limiting Principles Ceographically. -Celebrated Passages.

Cass, Lewis

(American, 1782-1866) 365 The Power of Opprobrium; Precedents

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and Progress. Castelar, Emilio Immortality brated Passages.

Cato, The Elder

and

Woman's Rights.

Cato, Uticensis

Celebrated Passages.

(Spain, 1832-1899) 365 Resurrection. - Cele

(Rome, 234-149 B. C.) 366

· Celebrated Passages.

(Rome, 95-46 B. C.) 366

Making the Worse Appear the Better Part; Good Breeding; Enemies a Benefit. Celebrated Passages.

Chalmers, Thomas

(Scotland, 1780-1847) 366 How to Make a Name."- Celebrated Passages.

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Chase, Salmon P.

(American, 1808-1873) 368 Jefferson and the West; Indestructible Union of Indestructible States. Celebrated Passages.

Châteaubriand, Francois René, Vicomte de

(France, 1768-1848) 369 "There is a God!", - Celebrated Passages. Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of

(England, 1708-1778) 369 The Crime of Being a Young Man; "If Not, May Discord Prevail Forever"; "God and the Host of Miters"; On the Expulsion of Wilkes; "If I Were an American"; On Lord North; Whig Spirit of the Eighteenth Century; Bayonets as Agencies of Reconciliation.— Celebrated Passages. Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of (England, 1694-1773) 168-171 Poets and Orators; Method of StudyThe World and Books; Mispronunciation and Misuse of Words; Books for Oratory; Charm of Manner; True Elocution; Hampden as a Model; Bolingbroke's Style.

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Cleon

Democracies and Their " Subjects."- Celebrated Passages.

Cleveland, Grover

(Greece, (?)-422 B. C.) 375

(American, 1837-) 376

Communism of Capital; Condition Not

Theory; Innocuous Desuetude. - Cele

brated Passages.

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Mirabeau's Style and Methods. Corwin, Thomas

(American, 1794-1865) 377 Shoot Them Down, and Then Exhort Them to be Free"; With Bloody Hands to Hospitable Graves; God's Judgment on Nations. - Celebrated Passages. Cousin, Victor (France, 1792-1867) 378 Truth and Liberty. - Celebrated Passages. Cox, Samuel S. (American, 1824-1889) 378 True Religion and Politics. - Celebrated Passages.

Crapo, William Wallace

(American, Nineteenth Century) 378 Public Office a Public Trust. Celebrated Passages.

Crittenden, John Jordan

(American, 1787-1863) 378 Clay as a Representative Man. - Celebrated Passages.

Crockett, David

(American, 1786-1836) 379

A Raccoon in a Bag; "Be Sure You're
Right." - Celebrated Passages.

Croly, Rev. George (Ireland, c. 1780-1860) 435
Catiline Defies the Senate. - Celebrated
Imaginary Addresses and Soliloquies.

Culpeper, Sir John

( England, (?)-1660) 379

"Monopolies and Polers of the People."
-Celebrated Passages.

Curran, John Philpot (Ireland, 1750-1817) 379
Pensions and Patriotism; Reply to

Threats; The Irresistible March of
Progress; "Such is the Oscitancy of
Man"; Appeal to Lord Avonmore; In-
formers in Treason Cases; Liberty of
the Press. · Celebrated Passages.

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Dickens, Charles

(England, 1812-1870) 488

Washington a Man of Genius.- Celebrated

Passages.

Danton, George Jacques

"To Dare, to Dare Again; Always to Dare."- Celebrated Passages.

Davis, David

(American, 1815-1886) 383 Lincoln and His Work.- Celebrated Passages.

Davis, Henry Winter (American, 1817-1865) 383 Corrupt Politics and Civil War.- Celebrated Passages.

Davis, Jefferson

(American, 1808-1889) 383

Commerce Supported by Agriculture; The Characteristic of the Chivalrous.- Celebrated Passages.

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(Ireland, 1846-) 383

(American, 1807-1864) 383

Mexican Territory and Issues Against Slavery.- Celebrated Passages.

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(American, 1751-1808) 384 Right or Wrong. Our Country."- Celebrated Passages.

Demosthenes (Greece, 384-322 B. C.) 384 Exordium of the "Oration on the Crown"; Lord Brougham's Translation of the Exordium "On the Crown"; Peroration "On the Crown "; " A Wicked Thing is a Calumniator"; Liberty Sold at Athens; The Orator's Greatest Crime; How to Avoid Censure; "Consider Whether You Are Not the Country's Enemy."- Celebrated Passages.

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Sergeant Buzfuz, in «Bardell vs. Pick-
wick."- Celebrated Imaginery Addresses
and Soliloquies.

Dickinson, Daniel S. (American, 1800-1866) 386
The Constitution the Soul of the Union.-
Celebrated Passages.
Dickinson, John

(American, 1732-1808) 387 Peroration of the Declaration on Taking Up Arms in 1775.- Celebrated Passages. Didon, Père Henri (France, 1840-1900) 387 Higher Criticism."- Celebrated Passages. Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth

(England, 1843-) 387 "Finding America."― Celebrated Passages. Dinarchus

(Greece, 361-291 B. C.) 387 Demosthenes Denounced.-Celebrated Passages. Dix, John A.

Religion and Civilization; "Shoot Him on
the Spot."- Celebrated Passages.

Dod, Albert B.

(American, 1798-1879) 387

(American, 1805-1845) 388

Truth and Error.- Celebrated Passages.

Dorset, The Earl of (England, 1591-1652) 388 Against Prynne in the Star Chamber.Celebrated Passages.

Dougherty, Daniel

(American, 1826-1889) 388

"Hancock the Superb."-Celebrated Passages.

Douglass, Frederick

The Right to Speak sages.

Douglas, Stephen A.

(American, 1817-1895) 388 Out.- Celebrated Pas

His Last Words in Politics.- Celebrated Passages. Dow, Lorenzo

(American, 1813-1861) 388

(American, 1777-1834) 388

(Scotland, 1851-1897) 389

(American, 1752-1817) 889

The Contrasts of Life.- Celebrated Passages. Drummond, Henry

"The Greatest Thing in the World."Celebrated Passages.

(France, 1748-1828) 386

Dwight, Timothy

"Men are Merely Taller Children."- Celebrated Passages.

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be Distinct and Deliberate"; "Let Your Pronunciation be Bold and Forcible "; "Acquire Compass and Variety in the Height of Your Voice"; "Pronounce Your Words with Propriety and Elegance"; "Pronounce Every Word Consisting of More Than One Syllable with its Proper Accent "; " In Every Sentence Distinguish the More Significant Words by a Natural, Forcible, and Varied Emphasis"; "Acquire a Just Variety of Pause and Inflection "; " Accompany the Emotions and Passions Which Your Words Express by Correspondent Tones, Looks, and Gestures."

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(Greece, c. 50 A. D.-(?) 109-112
On the Power of Speaking.
Erskine, Thomas, Baron (England, 1750-1823) 392
Degradation of Religion by Politics; Prec-

edents of Madness; "The Age of Rea-
son."- Celebrated Passages.

Evarts, William Maxwell (American, 1818-) 393 The Wisdom of Second Thought.- Celebrated Passages.

Everett, Edward

(American, 1794-1865) 393 American Responsibilities; The Cloud of Witnesses; Liberty Protected by Law; Efficiency the End of Existence; The Village School; The People Always Conquer; Imperishability of Great Examples.- Celebrated Passages.

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(American, 1737-1793) 405 "I Am a Friend to Righteous Government."― Celebrated Passages.

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Henderson, John B.

(American, Contemporaneous) 407 The Right to Make Foolish Speeches.Celebrated Passages.

Henry, Patrick (American, 1736-1799) 407 "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"; A Prophecy of Progress; "Why Should We Fetter Commerce?"- Celebrated Passages.

Herder, Johann Gottfried von

(Germany, 1744-1803) 409 "It Is No Tenet of Religion to Abjure Thinking.". Celebrated Passages.

Higginson, John

(England, 1616-1708) 409 Cent Per Cent in New England. - Celebrated Passages.

Hill, Benjamin Harvey (American, 1823-1882) 409
"I Was Born a Slaveholder."- Celebrated
Passages.
Hilliard, H. W.

(American, 1808-1892) 409

Constitutional Government; Manhood. -
Celebrated Passages.
Hoar, George Frisbie

(American, 1826-) 410 The Puritan.- Celebrated Passages. Hobbes, Thomas (England, 1588-1679) 135-146 Analysis and Synopsis of Aristotle's "Rhetoric."- Of the Original of Elocution and Pronunciation; Of the Choice of Words and Epithets; Of the Things That Make an Oration Flat; Of a Similitude; Of the Purity of Language; Of the Amplitude and Tenuity of Language; Of the Convenience or Decency of Elocution; Of Two Sorts of Styles; Of Those Things That Grace an Oration, and What Make it Delightful; In Manner an Oration is Graced by the Things Aforesaid; Of the Difference Between the Style To Be Used in Writing, and the Style To Be Used in Pleading; Of the Parts of an Oration and Their Order; Of the Proem; Places of Crimination and Purgation; Of the Narration; Of Proof, or Confirmation, and Refutation; Of Interrogations, Answers, and Jests; Of the Peroration. Holborne, Sir Robert (England, c. 1594-1647) 410 Against Ship Money.-Celebrated Passages. Holmes, Oliver Wendell

(American, 1809-1894) 410 Boston the Hub.- Celebrated Passages.

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