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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I

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John Milton - Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, part 1

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their contemporary United States. The third, fourth, and fifth volumes of this collection concern British speakers. The speeches contained in this third volume are ordered chronologically. We begin in the year 710 AD with a speech on the Saints, and end this volume in 1777 with the realisation of the impossibility of regaining control over the American colonies. - Summary by Carolin

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Listen next episodes of The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I:
John Milton - Plea for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, part 2 , Algernon Sidney - Speech on the Scaffold , George Whitefield - On the Method of Grace , James Wolfe - To His Army Before Quebec , John Bunyan - The Heavenly Footman , John Wesley - God’s Love to Fallen Man , John Wilkes - I - On Coercive Measures in America , John Wilkes - II - Conquest of America Impossible , Oliver Cromwell - At the Opening of Parliament Under the Protectorate , Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield - Against the Gin Bill of the Ministry , Richard Rumbold - Speech on the Scaffold , Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford - On His Proposed Removal from Office , Sir Henry Vane - I - Against Richard Cromwell , Sir Henry Vane - II - At His Trial for High Treason , William Murray, Earl of Mansfield - On the Right to Tax America , William Pitt, Earl of Chatham - I - The Retort to Walpole , William Pitt, Earl of Chatham - II - On the Right to Tax America , William Pitt, Earl of Chatham - III - On Affairs in America