MODEL SPEECHES FOR PRACTISE
BY
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Formerly Instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity
School, Yale University. Author of "How to Speak
in Public," "Great Speeches and How to Make
Them," "Complete Guide to Public Speak-
ing," "How to Build Mental Power,"
"Talks on Talking," etc., etc.
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1920
Copyright, 1920, by
GRENVILLE KLEISER
[Printed in the United States of America]
Published, February, 1920
Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of thePan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910
CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction—Aims and Purposes of Speaking—Grenville Kleiser
- After-Dinner Speaking—James Russell Lowell
- England, Mother of Nations—Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Age of Research—William Ewart Gladstone
- Address of Welcome—Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Good-Will to America—Sir William Harcourt
- The Qualities That Win—Charles Sumner
- The English-Speaking Race—George William Curtis
- Woman—Horace Porter
- Tribute to Herbert Spencer—William M. Evarts
- The Empire State—Chauncey M. Depew
- Men of Letters—James Anthony Froude
- Literature and Politics—John Morley
- General Sherman—Carl Schurz
- Oration Over Alexander Hamilton—Gouverneur Morris
- Eulogy of McKinley—Grover Cleveland
- Decoration Day—Thomas W. Higginson
- Faith in Mankind—Arthur T. Hadley
- Washington and Lincoln—Martin W. Littleton
- Characteristics of Washington—William McKinley
- Let France Be Free—George Jacques Danton
- Sons of Harvard—Charles Devens
- Wake Up, England!—King George
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