Great Speeches & Orations: Words spoken to change minds

The rhetoric that bent history — inaugurals, addresses, and appeals from the orators who knew that a speech, well made, is an act.

In this collection

• Lieutenant Bones
• To S. M
• Sir Quixote of the Moors
• Women as Sailors
• Behind a Mask
• The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun
• The Battle for the Bay. (August, 1864.)
• A Reversion to Type
• Culture and Anarchy
• The Man who Went Wrong
• The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
• The Chocolate Soldier
• The Eternal Feminine
• Island Honor
• The Beldonald Holbein
• The Voyage to New Zealand
• The Insurgent
• Mein Kampf
• The Funeral
• The Bishop
• The Canadian Horse
• Our Letters
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Ballad of the Battle of Gibeon
• Paul Gauguin
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