KC8254

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT, 1906,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1906. Reprinted August, 1907; May, 1908; January, August, 1909; July, 1910; July, 1911; August, 1912; July, 1913; April, September, 1914; July, 1915.

PREFACE

WASHINGTON'S "Farewell Address" and Webster's "First Bunker Hill Oration" are together regarded as equivalent to one work in the requirements of the schools for study and practice. The "Second Bunker Hill Oration" is added because it seems that every student of the First Oration would desire to read and, if time should allow, to study the many eloquent passages of the Oration upon the Completion of the Monument. It may be that the interest will not stop until all the occasional addresses mentioned in the Introduction have been read.

The helps provided in this volume give facts that were known to many of the original hearers of the Orations or the first readers of the Address. Such facts should add pleasure to the study or interest in the reading, but they are not meant for recitation. The lives of the authors will serve for convenient reference, when fuller biographies have been read.

The analyses of the productions, purposely made topical like a table of contents, will afford a convenient and rapid survey of the whole, while they will in no way interfere with the important exercise of writing sentences that embody the thoughts of paragraphs. The further work of instruction, grammatical, rhetorical, critical, and inspiring, is left to the teacher. May these noble expressions of patriotic. devotion be so taught as to lead the youth of our schools to greater love of our common country.

WASHINGTON

WHERE may the wearied eye repose,
When gazing on the Great;
Where neither guilty glory glows,
Nor despicable state?

Yes, one, the first, the last, the best,
The Cincinnatus of the West,

Whom envy dared not hate,

Bequeath the name of Washington,

To make man blush there was but one!

- BYRON.

WEBSTER

TAKE him for all in all, he was not only the greatest orator this country has ever known, but in the history of eloquence his name will stand with those of Demosthenes and Cicero, Chatham and Burke. - LODGE.