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BRITISH ORATIONS
A selection of the more important and representativepolitical addresses of the past two centuries,with biographical notes, critical comment, political,oratorical, and literary estimate.
Edited by Charles K. Adams, President of the Universityof Wisconsin. With an additional volumeedited by John Alden.
Four volumes, each complete in itself and sold separately.Each, 12°, gilt top, $1.25.
The orators included are: Sir John Eliot, John Pym,Lord Chatham, Edmund Burke, Charles J. Fox, SirJames Mackintosh, Lord Erskine, George Canning,Lord Macaulay, Richard Cobden, John Bright, LordBeaconsfield, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Mansfield,Daniel O’Connell, Lord Palmerston, RobertLowe, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Rosebery.
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK & LONDON
WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY
NOTES BY
JOHN ALDEN
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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1900
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press, New Rochelle, N. Y.
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In preparing this—the fourth volume of RepresentativeBritish Orations—a work which, inits three-volume form, has met with a large acceptancefrom the public, the editor has beenembarrassed by fulness rather than lack ofmaterial. Indeed, in its former shape, thebook fairly justified its title: it was representativerather than exhaustive of the subject.From the rich field of possible material theeditor has selected specimens of oratory diverseenough in style and occasion, but each,it is hoped, typical of the general trend of theperiod covered (1813–1898),—of the changefrom the passionate, partisan forensics ofO’Connell to the calm emphasis of LordRosebery.
Helps to the study of this period have naturallybeen many; but the editor must notivfail to acknowledge his constant indebtednessto the brilliant and invaluable “History of OurOwn Times” of Mr. Justin McCarthy, and in alesser degree to Mr. Fyffe’s “Modern Europe.”To Charles Gorham Marrett, Esq., he wishes torecord his personal obligations.
J. A.
Portland, Me.
October, 1899.
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