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An Essay on Elocution with Rules and Commentaries
"Let Your Articulation 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 Ex-
press by Correspondent Tones, Looks, and Gestures »
HEADLEY, JOEL TYLER
LIVED
1813-
An Essay on the Rise and Fall of Eloquence in the French
PAGE
281
The Principle of Economy Applied to Words
The Effect of Figurative Language Explained
Arrangement of Minor Images in Building up a Thought
The Superiority of Poetry to Prose Explained
Causes of Force in Language which Depend upon Economy of
the Mental Sensibilities
CELEBRATED PASSAGES FROM THE BEST ORATIONS, ANCIENT AND Modern
354
America
The Dangers of the Present
BROWN, JOHN
"Higher Law » Defined in Court
BRYAN, WILLIAM J. America (1860-)
"Crown of Thorns" and "Cross of
BERRIEN, JOHN M. America (1781-1856)
Effect of the Mexican Conquest
BERRYER, PIERRE ANTOINE
(1790-1868)
Corporate Combinations
France
Americans - Not Anglo-Saxons
Gold »
The Assassination of President Lincoln 347
The Supreme Court
348
(Contemporaneous)
War and the Constitution
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN
(1794-1878)
Corporations as Parts of Civil Govern-
The Essence of Greatness
BUCHANAN, JAMES America (1791-1868)
Money's Worth and Virtue's Worth -
BUNYAN, JOHN England (1628-1688)
The Devil Chasing a Sinner
355
- 355
ment
BURCHARD, REV. SAMUEL DICKINSON
America (1812-1891)
BLAIR, AUSTIN
Conkling's "Turkey-Gobbler Strut » - 349
(1818-1894)
Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion
Military Government
349
BURGES, TRISTAM America (1770-1853)
Free Speech and Liberty
BURKE, EDMUND Ireland (1729-1797)
Collecting Taxes in India under Hast-
The Deathbed of Benton
ings
Impeachment of Warren Hastings 1788 356
Peroration Against Warren Hastings - 356
Hyder Ali in the Carnatic
· 357
- 350
"Afraid of Being Too Much in the
Right"
- 357
Arbitrary Power Anarchical
Address to the Army of Italy
350
Arbitrary Power and Conquest
- 357.
Association of the Good
(1627-1704)
The Glory of the World
"Controlled Depravity Is Not Inno-
cence »
Liberty
and
the Brotherhood of
Man
Superficial" -
Esteem of the Wise and Good
Corruption and Disorder
"Difficulty Will Not Suffer Us to Be
« Epidemical Fanaticism »
357
- 358
358
7358
Fire Bells as Disturbers of the Peace
Fitness for Freedom
- 351
Flattery, Its Influence
Government
Oratory, the Masterful Art
Hampden's Twenty Shillings
"Humiliation Cannot Degrade Hu-
The Worship of the Sword -
Hypocrisy -
Power over the Lives of Others
Innovation and Confined Views
352
Judges and the Law
BROUGHAM, HENRY, BARON BROUGHAM
"Levelers Never Equalize»
AND VAUX England. (1778-1868)
Liberty of Individuals
On Pitt's Conquest -
Higher Law in England
Liberty Nibbled Away for Expedients - 358
353
Marie Antoinette as the Morning Star - 358
Law Reform -
Political Arithmetic
Public Benefactors and Their Rewards- 353
Pretenders -
Slanderers as Insects
Property for the Fittest
The Schoolmaster the Greatest Con-
Religion Makes Co-operation Possible - 359
queror -
Revolutions at Their Flood -
359