Excerpt from The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History; With Introductory Essays, Biographical Sketches and Critical Notes HE Editor has endeavored to present in this volume, the sixth in the World's Orators Series, those examples that best illustrate the early development of secular oratory in England. The period considered ends with the year eighteen hundred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.