Bacon, Lord, his oratory, 197, 226.
Baron, the actor, 114.
Baxter, Richard, saying of, 128.
Beecher, Edward, D.D., anecdote
of, 87.

Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, on
the voice, 87; his elocutionary
training, 442, 443.
Béranger, 187.
Berryer, M., 86.

Betterton, the actor, saying of,
110.

Bolingbroke, Lord, his oratory,
13, 227-232; his style, 188, 228-
230; his natural and acquired
talents, 227, 228; Chatham's
opinion of his eloquence, 228;
his invective, 229; excluded
from Parliament, 229; his writ-
ings, 231; Brougham's opinion
of his oratory, 231.
Bossuet, his eloquence, 22–24; on
the death of Henriette Anne
d'Angleterre, 28; his classical
studies, 167; his study of the

Bible, 167; his preparation of
a sermon, 180.
Bourdaloue, his eloquence, 22.
Brooks, Phillips, quoted, 128.
Brougham, Lord, his physical con-

stitution, 64; on speaking, 86;
his voice, 134; on the test of
oratorical power, 136; his power
in reply, 137; recommends the
practice of translation, 171; his
use of the pen, 179, 184; his
style, 188; his oratory described,
258-267; his energy, 91, 92, 258;
his faults, 259, 260; his force
in assault, 260; his irony,
sarcasm, and invective, 261; his
personal appearance, 261, 262;
his speech on Law Reform, 262;
his felicity in description, 262;
his invective against Pitt, 263;
his speeches on Negro Emanci-
pation, 263, 264; his power as
an advocate, 264, 265; his speech
in defense of Williams, 265–
267; his contrast of Burke with
Demosthenes, 274.

Bulwer, Sir Henry L., on the
House of Commons, 205.
Burgess, Tristam, anecdote of,
146.

Burke, Edmund, his speech at
Hastings's trial, 15, 16; on the
oratory of his own age, 32; his
quotations from the classics, 59;
his voice, 74; a master of meta-
phor, 104; his popularity as a
speaker, 134; his readiness in
retort, 155; insulted in the
House of Commons, 155; his
quotations from the poets, 166;
unpopular as a speaker, 204;
his invectives, 216; his oratory

tory, 119, 120.

Canning, George, his speech on
Portugal, 16; on Parliamentary
oratory, 47; his irony, 121; his
first speech in the House of
Commons, 145; his use of the
pen, 179; his oratory charac-
terized, 251-258; his personal
appearance, 252; his early
speeches, 252; his failure in
declamation, 253; his excessive
elaboration, 253, 254; extracts
from his speeches, 255-258; his
knowledge of finance, 255; his
wit, 256; his contests with
Brougham, 261; his preparation
for speaking, 435.
Carlyle, Thomas, on Daniel Web-
ster's eyes, 323.
Castlereagh, Lord, 225.
Chalmers, his oratory, 22; his
massiveness of frame, 65; his
manner of speaking, 134; his
failure in extempore speech,
148; his oratory characterized,
400-406; his personal appear-
ance and manner, 400-402; his
iteration, 402, 403; his failure in

extempore preaching, 403; illus-
trations of his power, 405, 506.
Chatham, Lord, his influence as
an orator, 14; his voice, 74, 233;
his force, 91, 234; his oratorical
frenzy, 109; his fastidiousness
and painstaking, 133, 232; his
treatment of Erskine, 152; rous-
ed by opposition, 157; his trans-
lations, 170; his oratory not
always successful, 207; his per-
sonalities, 215, 216; character-
ization of his oratory, 232-239;
his lack of learning, 233; his
force of assertion,234; anecdotes
of, 234-236; his wordiness and
iteration, 236, 237; described by
Wilkes, 238; his oratorical self-
culture, 431.

Chesterfield, Lord, his transla-
tions, 170; on the House of
Commons, 204; on oratory, 428.
Choate, Rufus, on Webster's elo-
quence, 36; on abstractions in
oratory, 103; his oriental looks
and style, 138; his nervousness,
150; his study of literature and
words, 166, 167; on translation,
171; his admiration of Pink-
ney, 175; commends the use of
the pen, 183; his success with
juries, 210; his oratory charac-
terized, 365-378; his personal
appearance, 366, 367; his ener-
gy, 367; his defenses of crimi-
nals, 369; his triumph over
Boston prejudice, 369, 370; his
dialectic skill, 371; his skill in
jury cases, 371-373; his long
sentences, 373; his style de-
scribed by Everett, 374; ex-
tracts from his speeches, 375;
his wit, 376, 377; his exaggera-
tion, 377; his copiousness of
style, 377; his emphasis, 378;
his oratorical training, 442.
Chrysostom, his classical studies,
165, his eloquence, 22.
Cicero, power of his oratory, 12,
13; on the eloquence of Demos-
thenes, 68; his intense feeling,
109; on Asiatic oratory, 137; his

nervousness and timidity in
speaking, 147, 148; his severe
oratorical training, 429, 430.
Clay, Henry, his voice, 75, 134,
319; his oratory described, 311-
322; his personal appearance,
311, 312, 319; his debate with
Calhoun in 1840, 313-315; his
slender education, 316, 317; his
success as a lawyer, 318; his
partial failures in speech-mak-
ing, 319; his absorption in his
themes, 319; his speech at Lex-
ington, after leaving Congress,
320; his oratorical training, 437,
438.

Climate, its effect on eloquence,
137-139.

Cobden, Richard, his first speech,

144.

Coleridge, S. T., saying of, 158.
Congress, the U.S., its personali-
ties, 215.
Conversation, an aid to oratory,

190.

Curran, John Philpot, his phys-
ical vigor, 65; his skill in cli-
max, 102; his metaphors, 105;
on the use of tropes, 107; his
wit, 121; his first speech, 144;
his readiness, 153; his use of
the pen, 179; his defenses of
political prisoners, 207, 208; his
oratorical studies, 435, 436.
Cushman, Charlotte, her painstak-
ing, 444.

D

D'Alembert, on oratory, 10.
Demosthenes, his voice, 80; his
force, 91; saying of, 112; his toil,
133; his careful preparation for
speaking, 185; his triumph over
difficulties, 428, 429.

De Quincey, Thomas, on tautology
in popular oratory, 197, 198; on
the inspiration of organists, 339.
Dewey, Orville, D.D., his elocu-
tion, 86.

Discourses, contrast between
spoken and printed, 193–200.
Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Bea-

consfield), his sarcasms, 123,
218, 219.

E

Edwards, Jonathan, his power in
the pulpit, 24.
Eldon, Lord, 150.
Elocution, objections to its study,
89, 419-423, 421.
Eloquence, the study of speci-
mens, 172-174; its tests, 193–
213; is in the audience, 203;
inconsistent with deep think-
ing, 203-205; contrasted with
wisdom, 204; a relative term,
212, 213, 281; cannot be re-
ported, 316; not a gift of nature
purely, 413-417. (See Oratory.)
Emerson, R. W., on oratory, 10,
50; on the eloquence of a Bos-
ton preacher, 24; on insincerity
of speech, 113, 128.
Emmet, his misquotation, 61.
Emmons, Nathaniel, D.D., 108.
Energy in oratory, 89-102; a char-

acteristic of Demosthenes, Chat-
ham, and Brougham, 91, 92,
258; also of John Marshall, 92;
increased by interrogation, 94,
95; by exclamation and apos-
trophe, 96; by gesture, 95; by
expression of countenance, 99
dependent on choice and num-
ber of words, 100; should be
accrescent, 101, 102.
Erskine, Harry, 153, 154.
Erskine, Lord, his physique, 65,
358; his skill in climax, 102;
on the source of eloquence, 109;
his wit, 123; his embarrass-
ment in his maiden speeches,
144; his sensitiveness to annoy-
ance, 151, 152; his study of
English literature, 166, 347; his
use of the pen, 180; on repeti-
tion, 197; his success in jury
addresses, 207, 208; his opinion
of one of Burke's speeches, 272;
his oratory characterized, 346-
359; his early education, 347;
his speech in defense of Baillie,
348-352; his rapid success, 357;

natural defects, 287, 288; de-
scribed by Mr. Lecky, 288; his
grandeur, 288; his excellences
and faults, 289-290, 300; pas-
sages from his speeches, 290-
292; on C. J. Fox, 291; a born
orator, 292.

Gray, the poet, saying of, 114.
Guido, 90.

Guthrie, Thomas, D.D., contrast
between his spoken and printed
sermons, 199.

H

Hall, Robert, his oratory charac-
terized, 391-392; his precocity,
391; his early failures in the
pulpit, 392; his education, 393;
his popularity, 393; his principal
sermons, 393, 394; his personal
appearance, 395; the secret of
his power, 395, 396; his manner,
396; his self-abandonment; his
imitation of Doctors Robinson
and Johnson, 398, 399; on tropes
and figures, 399; on Chalmers's
iteration, 402.

Hamilton, Alexander, 182.
Hamilton, W. G., his advice to
public speakers, 183, 184.
Handel, the composer, his sensi-
bility, 114, 115.

Hastings, Warren, his trial, 15, 16.
Hazlitt, William, on Burke's style,

104; on speakers and writers,
202; on eloquence and wisdom,

204.

Head, Sir Francis, on Indian ora-
tory, 26.
Henry, Patrick, his speech on
"the tobacco case," 17,303, 304;
his speech on American inde-
pendence, 18; his affectation,
133: his timidity as a speaker,
148; his coolness in crises, 157;
a proof of his eloquence, 210;
his oratory characterized, 301–
311; his defective education,
301; his distaste for labor, 302;
his taste for reading and the
study of character, 302; his first
law case, 303, 304; his speech

on the Stamp Act, 304, 305; his
speeches in support of Ameri-
can independence, 305-307; his
speech on the British refugees,
307; his ridicule of John Hook,
307,308; his personal appear-
ance and manner, 308, 309; his
success in jury trials, 310; com-
pared with Chatham, 310.
House of Commons, the oratory
successful in, 204, 205; person-
alities in, 214–219.

I

Imagery, excessive, 106.
Imagination, essential to the ora-
tor, 103-107; repressed by the
din of the age, 107.
Indignation, a stimulus to elo-
quence, 221.

Inspiration, the result of previous
toil, 186.
Instruction, not necessarily inju-
rious in oratory, 417-419; may
be over-technical, 418, 419.
Interrogation, 94, 95; employed
by Cicero and Demosthenes, 94,
95.

J

Jefferson, Thomas, his voice, 77;
on Mirabeau, 92.

Jeffrey, Lord, his timidity as a
speaker, 148.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, not fitted for
oratory, 188.

K

Kean, Edmund, his voice, 79; his
ignorance of elocutionary rules,
419, 420, 422.

Kemble, John, anecdote of, 114.
Kennedy, J. P., his anecdote of a
novitiate, 144.
King, Dr., 165.
Kirk, Edward, D.D., his elo-
quence, 384.

L

Labor the price of excellence, 426.
Laurence, Dr. French, his elocu-
tion, 88.

Law (Lord Ellenborough), 60.