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World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II by William Jennings Bryan
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their contemporary United States. The third, fourth, and fifth volumes of this collection concern British speakers. The speeches contained in this third volume are ordered chronologically. We begin in the year 1781 with a speech on the war in America, and end
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William Pitt - I - The War in America Denounced
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William Pitt - II - On an Attempt to Force His...
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31:13
William Pitt - III - On the Refusal to Negotiate with...
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Charles James Fox - I - On the British Defeat in America
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Charles James Fox - II - The Tyranny of the East...
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Charles James Fox - III - The Foreign Policy of...
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Charles James Fox - IV - On the Refusal to Negotiate...
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17:26
William Wilberforce - On the Horrors of the Slave Trade
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22:48
Thomas Erskine - On Limitations to Freedom of Speech
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Sir James Mackintosh - A Plea for Free Speech
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04:51
Thomas Chalmers - When Old Things Pass Away
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20:10
George Canning - On Granting Aid to Portugal
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18:48
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay - On the Reform Bill
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18:42
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham - On Emancipation for the...
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Charles Dickens - As the Literary Guest of America
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34:25
Richard Cobden - The Effects of Protection on...
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18:39
Sir Robert Peel - For a Repeal of the Corn Laws
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - On...
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27:12
William Makepeace Thackeray - On Charity and Humor
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10:54
John Henry Newman - Catholicism and the Religions of...
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