Masterpieces of best Eloquence and the World's Great Orators : Charles Morris

Masterpieces of Eloquence and the World's Great Orators : Charles Morris
Hardcover
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1903 by W. E. Scull, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Wahington D.C.
9 1/2" tall x 7" wide x 1 3/4" thick


What a great resource! Famous speeches by well-known and obscure orators through the ages. Heavily illustrated with famous historic scenes, this is one for every reference shelf. Half the chapters (called "books") are of American orators and half are of European.  In the photographs provided, there is a photo of the alphabetical lists, but includes, among others:
John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, Susan B Anthony, Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, William J Bryan, Henry Clay, Samuel L Clemens (Mark Twain), Jefferson Davis, Anna E Dickinson, Stephen A Douglas, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James A Garfield, Edward Everett Hale, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Josiah Quincy, Theodore Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thomas DeWitt Talmage, Booker T Washington, Daniel Webster ...( a few of those listed under the American Orators)
Mark Antony, Francis Bacon, Prince best Otto von Bismarck, Edmund Burke, Caesar, Emilio Castelar, Earl of Chatham, Victor Cousin, Demosthenes, Sir John Eliot, Lord Thomas Erskine, Charles James Fox, William E Gladstone, Marie Victor Hugo, John Knox, Hugh Latimer, Martin Luther, Giuseppe Mazzini, Sir Robert Peel, William Pitt, Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard, Sydney Smith, John Wesley ... (a few of those listed under European Orators)