
A HISTORY OF ORATORY IN PARLIAMENT
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Heath, Cranton & Ousley, London, believe 1913 and 1st. Hard cover 329 pages including Index. Orange boards with some soil and small stains; gold lettering on spine. Some edge, corner and spine end wear, spine top has a split and repair; some fraying at corners and spine ends. Binding sound. No jacket. Binding cracked at half-title page with all pages secure. Small stains and soil on outer page block; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages. ‘For we can think of the Parliament, of the particular debate, of the circumstances of the speaker and his audience, when his words were connecting the orator with all who heard him, when by them he excited many to anger, and some to great enthusiasm and admiration of his power. These words were means of persuasion, and the orator knew how to utter them, with wisdom and fire.’ (from Preface)