Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English p...
"The single aim in telling the story that follows is to interest boys in the life of Booker T. Washington. "This man's life was of such singular and v...
The imagist school was founded by Ezra Pound but later defined by Lowell. Simple speech is favoured over lyricism, freedom of rhythm over the metrical...
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations of all tim...
The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such famous persons as Achilles, Pericles, and Socrates, with their most famous (legendary or...
Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. The...
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically...
Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through w...
The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In the Sophistical...
The New Freedom was Woodrow Wilson's campaign platform in the 1912 presidential election, and also refers to the progressive programs enacted by Wilso...
This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the McNamaras at Los Angeles, Cal...
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jes...
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal ca...
One of the earlier works on brain science, relating what was then known or conjectured about the connection between the physical brain and the individ...
In this Little Blue Book Number , Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Voltaire (1694-1778) as...
"The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On the Mechanism of the Human Voice" and t...
This book contains an extensive listing of Mark Twain's work. Rather than repeating that listing, this recording simply reflects the bibliographer's e...
Part 1 of this brief historical fiction is a recounting of the day before and the day of Lincoln's delivery of The Gettysburg Address. Part 2 is an im...
The book contains a variety of works, including speeches that Dunbar Nelson gave at events such as the Women's International League for Peace and Free...
It is a valuable guidebook for anyone who wants to improve their public speaking skills. Written by John Poole Sandlands, an authority on voice produc...
This is a captivating collection of historical speeches from prominent figures across Continental Europe. This volume, skillfully compiled by the este...
