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Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z

Volume 3 — VOLUME III

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Page, Thomas Nelson

The Torch of Civilization861

Palmer, George M.

The Lawyer in Politics872

Palmerston, Lord (Henry John Temple)

Illusions Created by Art876

Paxton, John R.

A Scotch-Irishman's Views of the Puritan880

Phelps, Edward John

Farewell Address887

Pinero, Arthur Wing

The Drama892

Porter, Horace

Men of Many Inventions897

How to Avoid the Subject904

A Trip Abroad with Depew908

Woman913

Friendliness of the French919

The Citizen Soldier924

The Many-Sided Puritan928

Abraham Lincoln931

Sires and Sons935

The Assimilated Dutchman939

Tribute to General Grant944

Porter, Noah

Teachings of Science and Religion950

Potter, Henry Codman

The Church955

Pryor, Roger Atkinson

Virginia's Part in American History959

Quincy, Josiah

Welcome to Dickens964

Raymond, Andrew V. V.

The Dutch as Enemies970

Read, Opie P.

Modern Fiction976

Reid, Whitelaw

The Press—Right or Wrong979

Gladstone, England's Greatest Leader981

Robbins, W. L.

The Pulpit and the Bar985

Roche, James Jeffrey

The Press988

Roosa, D. B. St. John

The Salt of the Earth992

Roosevelt, Theodore

The Hollander as an American998

True Americanism and Expansion1002

Rosebery, Lord (Archibald Philip Primrose)

Portrait and Landscape Painting1008

Sala, George Augustus

Friend and Foe1014

Salisbury, Lord (Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil)

Kitchener in Africa1018

Sampson, William Thomas

Victory in Superior Numbers1023

Schenck, Noah Hunt

Truth and Trade1026

Schley, Winfield Scott

The Navy in Peace and in War1031

Schliemann, Heinrich

The Beginnings of Art1034

Schurz, Carl

The Old World and the New1036

Seward, William H.

A Pious Pilgrimage1042

Sherman, William Tecumseh

The Army and Navy1046

A Reminiscence of the War1051

Smith, Ballard

The Press of the South1057

Smith, Charles Emory

Ireland's Struggles1059

The President's Prelude1062

Spencer, Herbert

The Gospel of Relaxation1067

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn

America Visited1073

Stanley, Henry Morton

Through the Dark Continent1077

Stedman, Edmund Clarence

Tribute to Richard Henry Stoddard1085

Stephen, Leslie

The Critic1091

Storrs, Richard Salter

The Victory at Yorktown1094

Stryker, William Scudder

Dutch Heroes of the New World1104

Sullivan, Sir Arthur

Music1108

Sumner, Charles

Intercourse with China1110

The Qualities that Win1115

Talmage, Thomas Dewitt

Behold the American!1122

What I Know about the Dutch1128

Taylor, Bayard

Tribute to Goethe1136

Thompson, Slason

The Ethics of the Press1139

Tilton, Theodore

Woman1142

Twichell, Joseph Hopkins

Yankee Notions1147

The Soldier Stamp

Tyndall, John

Art and Science1160

Van de Water, George Roe

Dutch Traits1162

Verdery, Marion J.

The South in Wall Street1168

Wales, Prince of (Albert Edward)

The Colonies1175

Wallace, Hugh C.

The Southerner in the West1178

Ward, Samuel Baldwin

The Medical Profession1182

Warner, Charles Dudley

The Rise of "The Atlantic"1186

Watterson, Henry

Our Wives1189

The Puritan, and the Cavalier1191

Wayland, Heman Lincoln

The Force of Ideas1197

Causes of Unpopularity1201

Webster, Daniel

The Constitution and the Union1210

Wheeler, Joseph

The American Soldier1220

Whipple, Edwin Percy

China Emerging from Her Isolation1225

The Sphere of Woman1229

White, Andrew Dickson

Commerce and Diplomacy1232

Wiley, Harvey Washington

The Ideal Woman1240

Wilson, Woodrow

Our Ancestral Responsibilities1248

Winslow, John

The First Thanksgiving Day1253

Winter, William

Tribute to John Gilbert1257

Tribute to Lester Wallack1260

Winthrop, Robert C.

The Ottoman Empire1263

Wise, John Sergeant

Captain John Smith1266

The Legal Profession1271

Wolcott, Edward Oliver

The Bright Land to Westward1273

Wolseley, Lord (Garnet Joseph Wolseley)

The Army in the Transvaal1280

Wu Ting-fang

China and the United States1284

Wyman, Walter

Sons of the Revolution1288

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