CLINTON, Foreign Conquest, COBDEN, American Vessels, COLERIDGE, The Good Great Man, 66 Translations,. COLLINS, HOW Sleep the Brave, 66 Ode on the Passions, COMBE, On the Exercise of Speaking, 66 CONRAD, The Death of Taylor,. COTTON, To-morrow, COWPER, Affectation in the Pulpit, 66 Translations, COYNE, Moses at the Fair, 275 CRITTENDEN, Government Extravagance, . 351 66 CROLY, Death of Leonidas, 66 Catiline to the Conspirators, Catiline's Last Harangue, Seventh Plague of Egypt, Heaven on the Side of Principle, 226 Union with Great Britain, Religion Independent, Sectarian Tyranny, GREENE, Baron's Last Banquet, HALLECK, Marco Bozzaris, 66 The South in 1776, 66 The South in 1812, 133 HEBER, Forgive, 235 .236 237 238 239 66 Reply to Flood,. 66 National Gratitude, Catholic Disqualifications, 227 66 . .228 66 The Catholic Question, 2:29 .230 66 231 420 Page 70 102 99 .396 . 122 . 123 41 .536 64 .337 66 . 487 "Wm. Tell on Switzerland, 488 489 66 JOHNSON, DR, Fate of Charles XII., KNOWLES, J. S., Speech of Caius Gracchus, 116 "Cæsar at the Rubicon, . .473 KORNER, Battle-hymn, KOSSUTH Appeal to the Hungarians, . 158 MITFORD, Rienzi to the Romans, . 138 .378 MOORE, The Torch of Liberty,. 58 MORTON, Not ashamed of his Occupation,. 504 .. 151 185 NAPOLEON, To the Army of Italy, .313 NICHOL, Day conceals, . 314 NORTON, The Soldier from Bingen, 385 150 .343 94 44 .422 .561 66 Translation-True Wisdom, .462 463 257 258 61 553 OTIS, JAMES, Supposed Speech of, 284 514 XIV . 509 66 66 Tell's Escape, 511 46 66 Wallenstein's Soliloquy, . 512 Belief in Astrology,. 513 66 Grief of Bereavement, . 415 SCIPIO, to his Army,. . . . SCOTT, SIR WALTER, Princes of Crusade, Death of Marmion, SEGUR, DE, Utility of History,. 66 Marullus to the People,. SHEA, The O'Kavanagh, SHELLEY, Peace and War, 66 Drones of the Community, SHEIL, Charges against Catholics, 66 Irish Aliens, England's Misrule, SHERIDAN, Atheistic Government, Terrorism of Jacobins, 126 VERPLANCK, America's Contributions, . 126 VIRGINIA, Ballad of, 141 VILLEMAIN, The Christian Orator, 66 On Gesture, Failure of his Method, .498 437 WAT TYLER, Speech of,. ... 472 WAYLAND, International Sympathies, Supposed Speech of J. Adams, . 288 326 327 Sympathy with South America, 328 TOBIN, Balthazar and the Quack, .491 TOCQUEVILLE, DE, Democracy, .185 TRELAT, To the Peers, . 183 UHLAND, The Passage, . .455 56 VANE, Against Richard Cromwell, . 196 178 66 . . 197 .150 Moral Force,. .264 แ Colonna to the King, . 507 66 .240 66 Sudden Conversions, ... 330 241 66 Constitution Platform, ... 331 แ People and King, 241 Resistance to Oppression, 332 Rolla to Peruvians, 473 66 Peaceable Secession, 333 Puff's Account of Himself, .550 Clay's Resolutions,. 333 SHIRLEY, Death's Final Conquest, 58 Justice to the Whole, 334 507 Matches and over Matches, 335 SMITH, HORACE, Merchant and Stranger, 543 S. Carolina and Mass., ..336 66 Culprit and Judge, .546 26 Liberty and Union,. .33S Jester Condemned, .547 Guilt cannot keep its own Secret, 369 Poet and Alchemist, 547 To Revolutionary Veterans, .389 Blindman's Buff, .548 State Obligations, . 361 Moral Cosmetics, 554 Fourth of July, 391 Farmer and Counsellor, . 549 Apostrophe to Washington, .555 Power of Public Opinion, .394 Lachrymose Writers, .556 Standard of the Constitution, .399 The Sanctuary, .. 547 SMITH, SYDNEY, Taxes, 87 Government Vigor, 374 WHATELY, Against Artificial Elocution, 22 45 212 Rejection of Reform,. . 374 Conquest of Americans, . 213 SMITH, W. R., Prosperity, SOUTHEY, Wat Tyler to the King, . 349 WIRT, Instigators of Treason, .366 .146 66 Burr and Blennerhassett, SOUTHEY, CAROLINE B., Pauper's Death-bed, 554 Reply to Wickham, . 367 SPARTACUS, To the Gladiators,. 123 WITHINGTON, To-day, 42 To Roman Envoys, .124 80 18 66 64 Burial of Sir J. Moore,. 152 71 YOUNG, Time's Midnight Voice, 193 64 Frivolous Pleasures, 67 74 97 534 WOLFE, GEN., To the Army before Quebec, 147 89 THE STANDARD SPEAKER. KAMSCHAte a INTRODUCTORY TREATISE. I. ORATORY. ORATORY, which has its derivation from the Latin verb oro, signifying to plead, to beseech, may be defined the art of producing persuasion or conviction by means of spoken discourse. The word eloquence, in its primary signification, as its etymology implies, had a single reference to public speaking; but it is applied by Aristotle, as well as by modern writers, to compositions not intended for public delivery. A similar extension of meaning has been given to the word rhetoric, which, in its etymological sense, means the art of the orator, but now comprehends the art of prose composition generally. ORATORY AMONG THE ANCIENTS. It is apparent, from the speeches attributed by Homer to the chiefs of the Iliad, as well as by the commendations which he bestows on Nestor and Ulysses for their eloquence, that the art of Oratory was early understood and honored in Greece. But it was not till Demosthenes appeared that Grecian eloquence reached its perfection. Demosthenes, who, by the consent of all antiquity, was the prince of orators, still maintains his preeminence. Of his style, Hume has happily said: "It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense; it is vehement reasoning, without any appearance of art; it is disdain, anger, boldness, freedom, involved in a continued stream of argument; and of all human productions, the orations of Demosthenes present to us the models which approach the nearest to perfection." It is related of this great orator, that, in his first address to the people, he was laughed at and interrupted by their clamors. He had a weakness of voice and a stammering propensity which rendered it difficult for him to be understood. By immense labor, and an undaunted perseverance, he overcame these defects; and subsequently, by the spell of his eloquence, exercised an unparalleled sway over that same people who had jeered at him when they first heard him speak in public. The speeches of Demosthenes were not extemporaneous. There were no writers of short-hand in his days; and what was written could only come from the author himself. After the time of Demosthenes, Grecian eloquence, which was coëval with Grecian liberty, declined with the decay of the latter. In Rome, the military spirit, so incompatible with a high degree of civil freedom, long checked tho |