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1. BROUGHAM, (broom,) HENRY, LORD, philosopher, law-reformer, statesman, orator, and critic, was born in 1779, at Edinburgh, where he was educated at the High School and University. He united with Jeffrey and Horner in establishing the "Edinburgh Review," and for nearly twenty years he was one of its most regular contributors. Having for a few years practised law at the Scottish bar, he removed to England in 1807, and entered Parliament in 1810. His long parliamentary career has been characterized as one of desultory warfare. "A great part of his life has been spent in beating down; in detecting false pretensions whether in literature or politics; in searching out the abuses of long-established institutions; in laying open the perversions of public charities; in exposing the cruelties of the criminal code; or in rousing public attention to a world of evils resulting from the irregularities in the administration of municipal law." The character of his eloquence is well suited to the purposes of an assailant. "For fierce, vengeful, and irresistible assault," says John Foster, "Brougham stands the foremost man in all the world."

This extract is taken from his Inaugural Discourse as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, delivered in 1825.

4. II. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN was born at Dublin, September, 1751. His father was Thomas Sheridan, author of a Pronouncing Dictionary, and a distinguished teacher of elocution. His career was brilliant and successful, both as a dramatist and an orator. He entered Parliament in 1780, where his first speech was a failure; and when told, at its close, by one of his disappointed friends, that he had better have stuck to his former pursuit of writing plays, he rested his head on his hand for some minutes, and then exclaimed with vehemence, "It is in me, and it shall come out of me!" And so it did. Of his speech against Hastings, on the charge of the Begums, Mr. Pitt said, " an abler speech was perhaps never delivered;" and Mr. Fox characterized it as "the greatest that had been delivered within the memory of man." But his convivial habits betrayed him into gross intemperance, and he became bankrupt in character and health, as well as in fortune, and died on the 7th of July, 1816, at the age of sixty-four, a melancholy example of brilliant talents sacrificed to a love of display and sensual indulgence.

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II. This is a very useful piece for practice, on account of the excellent illustrations of emphasis and inflections which it affords. The third paragraph is a fine example of the circumflex slides.

III. From the speech on the Begum Charge, before the House of Lords, sitting as a High Court of Parliament, June, 1788, and said to be the most graphic and powerful description to be found in the speeches of Sheridan.

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Oude, (ood): Begums, Hindoo Princesses.

Zenana, (ze-náh-nah): that part of a house in India particularly reserved for women.

6. IV. THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE, was born in Charleston, S. C., September 26, 1786. He was a descendant of the Huguenots. In the days of Nullification, he supported the General Government. He was an eloquent advocate of the Union, and in a Fourth of July Oration at Charleston, in 1809, he graphically depicts the horrors of civil war, which must follow disunion. He died on the 12th of October, 1834.

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v. Lycian ('-she-an): Achæan (a-kee'-an): Hanseatic (han-se-at-ic), from Hanse (hän-seh), a German word, signifying "association for mutual support." Hamburg, Lubeck, Bremen, and Frankfort, constitute the present free Hanseatic cities.

12. VIII. CHAUNCEY A. GOODRICH occupied the chair of Rhetoric and Oratory in Yale College, from 1817 until 1839, when he was transferred to that of Pastoral Theology, which he filled for more than twenty years. His chief literary works are his "Collection of Select British Eloquence," an excellent book, and his revised and enlarged edition of "Webster's Dictionary."

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Mr. Webster's argument in the Dartmouth College case, was delivered in 1818, and Professor Goodrich says that he went to Washington chiefly for the sake of hearing it.

IX. JOSIAH QUINCY was born in 1772, and graduated at Harvard College
in 1790. He was in Congress from 1805 until 1813; mayor of Boston
for six years, and President of Harvard from 1829 until 1845. He
died July 1, 1864.

This extract is from his Centennial Address on the Two Hundredth
Anniversary of the Settlement of Boston, delivered in 1830.

x. Bon Homme Richard: (bo nom ree'-shar") Guerriére: (ghér-re-air"').
XI. WILLAM ELLERY CHANNING, grandson of William Ellery, one of the
signers of the Declaration, was born at Newport, R. I., April 7, 1780.
In 1798, he was graduated at Harvard, with the highest honors. For
nearly forty years he was pastor of the Federal Street Church, in Bos-
The collection of his Works embraces six volumes. He was one
of the most eloquent of American divines, and he wrote largely on war,
temperance, slavery, and education. He died October 2, 1842.

ton.

22. XIV. Tyrol (týr-ol): Innspruk (inns'-prook): Scheldt (skelt).

23. XV. THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER, an Irish patriot and orator. At present a general in the United States Army, and a stanch friend of the Union. 25. XVII. HENRY GRATTAN, born at Dublin, July 3, 1746; died May 14, 1820. He was the greatest of Irish patriots, and the greatest of Irish orators. His forte was reasoning, but it was "logic on fire." A distinguished writer described his eloquence as a "combination of cloud, whirlwind,

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and flame." His style was elaborated with great care. His language is select, and his periods are easy and fluent.

XVIII. RUFUS CHOATE was born at Ipswich, Mass., October 1, 1799, graduated at Dartmouth College, with the highest honors, in 1819, and died at Halifax, while on his way to Europe, July 13, 1859. Gifted with the most brilliant intellectual powers, he was ever a hard student. Mr. Everett says of him, "With such gifts, such attainments, and such a spirit, he placed himself, as a matter of course, not merely at the head of the jurists and advocates, but of the public speakers of the country." His most famous oration is his Eulogy on Daniel Webster, delivered at Dartmouth College. Mr. Choate's Works have been edited, and an admirable Memoir of his Life written, by Professor Samuel G. Brown, the whole being published in two octavo volumes.

xx. Boëthius (bo-e'-thi-us).

- Sibyl (sib'il).

XXI. From a Lecture on the Eloquence of Revolutionary Periods, delivered in Boston, February, 1857.

XXIII. gobelin (gob'-e-lin): Pericles (per-I-cles).

37. XXVII. MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD, whose maiden name was FRANCIS, was born in Massachusetts, but passed a portion of her earlier years in Maine. Her literary productions are numerous, and are characterized by vigor and originality of thought. She has been very prominent in the anti-slavery movement. A work on the subject of slavery, published by her in 1833, produced a great sensation. This selection is from The Rebels, a tale of the Revolution, which was published in 1825, when she was quite young.

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XXX. PATRICK HENRY. This distinguished "orator of nature" was born in Virginia, May 29, 1736. He was a member of the first Congress, which met in Carpenter's Hall, at Philadelphia, on the 4th of September, 1774. For several years he was governor of Virginia, and for more than thirty years he stood among the foremost of American patriots and statesmen. He was one of the earliest and most powerful opponents of British power. In 1765, as member of the House of Burgesses, he introduced his famous resolutions against the Stamp Act, which proved the opening of the American Revolution in the colony of Virginia. He died on the 6th of June, 1799. His life has been written by William Wirt.

This speech was delivered about one month before the battle of Lexington, so that his prophecy, "The next gale," &c., was almost literally fulfilled.

44. XXXIII. Præsidium (pre-sid ́-I-um): a guard.

Pueblo (pwa'blo): a village.

- ranch: a hut, or collection of huts; a farming establishment.
Tehuauntepec (ta-huán-te-pěc).

46. xxxiv. REV. ROBERT HALL, an eminent Baptist minister, was born at Arnsby, England, August, 1764, and died at Bristol, on the 21st of February, 1831. His writings, which have been published in six volumes, are highly finished in style, and display a remarkable combination of logical precision, metaphysical acuteness, practical

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sense and sagacity, with a rich luxuriance of imagination, and all the graces of composition. Dr. Parr says of him, "He has, like Jeremy Taylor, the eloquence of an orator, the fancy of a poet, the subtlety of a schoolman, the profoundness of a philosopher, and the piety of a saint."

47. XXXV. JOSEPH STORY was born at Marblehead, Mass., September 18, 1779. In 1810, he was appointed by President Madison Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and in 1829, he was made Professor of the Dane Law School, which office he held until his death, September 10th, 1845. He was an eminent jurist, an eloquent orator, and a finished scholar.

Siloa: the metre here requires the accent on the first syllable (sil'-o-a,) though most authorities make it (sil-ó-a.).

52. xxxix. REV. ELIJAH KELLOGG, a clergyman in Boston.

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piece especially for declamation. This copy is a recent revision by
the author for Hillard's Reader.

XL. From a speech delivered in the House of Representatives of the
United States, January 8, 1847.

XLI. From an oration delivered at the seat of Government, on the occasion
of laying the corner-stone of the National Monument to Washington,
July 4, 1848.

LIII. FISHER AMES was born at Dedham, Mass., April 9th, 1758, where he died, July 4th, 1808. He was a member of the first Congress under the Constitution, in which body he remained eight years. In 1804, he was tendered the Presidency of Harvard College, which he declined. He was an excellent classical scholar and an accomplished orator. His speech on Jay's Treaty, from which this extract is taken, is a production of the deepest pathos and richest eloquence. Webster is said to have committed the whole speech to memory in early life.

92. LXIX. BROUGHAM's career, though brilliant, has been marked by the most extraordinary inconsistencies and contradictions, and now, at the age of eighty-five, forgetting his brave denunciation of slavery, he takes sides with a wicked rebellion, which was set on foot for the establishment of an empire based on slavery.

97. LXXIII. RICHARD LALOR SHIEL was born in Ireland, August 17, 1791, and died in Italy, May 23, 1857. He entered Parliament in 1830, and at the time of his death, he was Minister at the Court of Tuscany. For bold, impassioned declamation, this extract has seldom been equalled.

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STRAFFORD, EARL, whose family name was WENTWORTH. Renegade, because having at first resisted the arbitrary power of Charles the First, he afterwards became so obnoxious to the people by his own exercise of arbitrary power that he was impeached of high treason and executed.

one man of great abilities: LORD LYNDHURST, who was born in Boston, Mass., May 21, 1772. He was the son of the eminent portrait and historical painter, John Singleton Copley.

- Assaye (ǎs-si'), a small town in Hindostan, where the Duke of Wellington commenced his career of victory in a battle fought September 23, 1803.

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LXXIII. Waterloo: (waw'-ter-loo,) battle of, June 18, 1815.

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Vimeira (ve-mã ́-e-rah,) a town in Portugal, where the Duke of
Wellington defeated the French, August 21, 1808.

Badajos: (bad-ah-hocé) a town in Spain, taken from the French
by the Duke of Wellington, April 6, 1812.

Salamanca (sah-lah-mangʻ-kah) a city in Spain, near which the
English, under Wellington, totally defeated the French, under
Marmont and Clusel, July 22, 1812.

Albuera: (al-boo-a'-rah) a town in Spain where the British and
allies gained a victory over the French, May 16, 1811.

Toulouse (too-looz') a city in France, where Wellington defeated the French under Soult, April 10, 1814.

LXXIV. FRANCIS WAYLAND, President of Brown University from 1827 until 1856, was born at New York, March 11, 1796.

111. LXXXIII. EDWARD EVERETT was born at Dorchester, Mass., April 11, 1794, took his degree at Harvard College in 1811, and was settled over the church in Brattle Street, Boston, in 1813. In 1815, he was appointed Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard College, and he devoted the four succeeding years to study and travel in Europe, with the view to further qualify himself for its duties, which he assumed in 1819, with those of editor of the "North American Review." Both these positions he held till 1825, when Le took his seat in Congress as Representative from Middlesex County, which he held for ten years. He was Governor of Massachusetts from 1836 until 1840. In 1841 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, and on his return home in 1846, was elected President of Harvard College, which position he resigned in 1849. He succeeded Mr. Webster as Secretary of State, in 1852, and in 1853 was chosen to the Senate of the United States, but soon resigned on account of ill health. Edward Everett is the most accomplished orator in this country, and he may justly be styled the Cicero of America. His splendid oration pronounced August 26, 1824, at Cambridge, before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, closing with the beautiful apostrophe to Lafayette, who was present, placed him before the public as one of the greatest and most accomplished orators who had ever appeared in America. The reputation then achieved by him has been steadily advancing for forty years. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he at once came out boldly in support of the Government and the Constitution, and during the struggle thus far, his matchless pen, his eloquent voice, and his great personal influence have been employed, on all proper occasions, in maintaining the cause of his country. Three large octavo volumes of his orations and occasional speeches have been published, constituting a body of eloquence and learning, which has been surpassed by no other orator in the language.

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From an oration delivered at Plymouth, on the anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims, 22d of December, 1824.

114 LXXXVI. From an oration delivered at Bloody Brook, in South Deerfield, Mass., September 30, 1835, in commemoration of the fall

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