CONTENTS
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Vol. VII—Continental Europe (380—1906)
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PART I—EARLY CHRISTIANITY
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St. Chrysostom—The Blessings of Death (About 380) |
3
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St. Augustine—On the Lord's Prayer |
7
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Abelard—The Divine Tragedy |
17
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St. Bernard—Why Another Crusade? (About 1145) |
20
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PART II—THE REFORMATION
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Savonarola—I A Report on His Embassy to the King (1495) |
25
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II After His Excommunication (1498) |
28
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Zwingli—On Mercenary Soldiers (About 1530) |
30
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Luther—Before the Diet of Worms (1520) |
38
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Melanchthon—On the Death of Luther (1546) |
44
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Calvin—On Suffering Persecution |
50
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PART III—MODERN FRANCE
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Bossuet—On the Death of the Great Condé (1686) |
63
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Bourdaloue—On the Passion of Christ |
67
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Fenelon—True and False Simplicity |
74
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Massillon—Of a Malignant Tongue |
80
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Desmoulins—Better to Die than not Live Free (1788) |
89
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Mirabeau—I Necker's Financial Plan (1789) |
93
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II On Being Accused of Treasonable Relations to the Court (1790) |
97
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Barnave—Against Majority Absolutism (1791) |
112
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Vergniaud—On the Situation in France (1792) |
117
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Danton—I "Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare" (1792) |
130
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II On Liberty of Worship (1793) |
132
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III On Taxing the Rich (1793) |
134
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Robespierre—I Against Granting the King a Trial (1792) |
136
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II His Last Speech (1794) |
145
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Marat—In His Own Defense (1793) |
148
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Cambon—On the Situation in France (1793) |
152
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St. Just—Invective Against Danton (1794) |
156
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Barere—On the Heroism of the "Vengeur's" Sailors (1794) |
161
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Napoleon—I To the Army in Italy (1796) |
168
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II To the Army of Italy Again (1796) |
169
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III Speech to the Directory (1797) |
172
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IV During the Egyptian Campaign (1798) |
173
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V On the Anniversary of Austerlitz (1806) |
175
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VI To His Soldiers at Fontainebleau (1814) |
176
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VII After the Return from Elba (1815) |
177
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Carnot—Against Setting Up an Emperor (1802) |
179
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Lamartine—To a Deputation of Poles (1848) |
187
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Hugo—In Defense of His Son (1851) |
193
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Gambetta—Education for the Peasantry in France |
196
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Baron D'Estournelles de Constant—France and the United States (1902) |
200
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Jaures—In the Debate on Socialism with Clemenceau (1906) |
208
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Clemenceau—In the Debate on Socialism with Jaurès (1906) |
214
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PART IV—ITALY
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Mazzini—To the Young Men of Italy (1848) |
225
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Garibaldi—To His Soldiers (1860) |
229
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Cavour—Rome as the Capital of United Italy (1861) |
232
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PART V—MODERN GERMANY, HUNGARY AND SPAIN
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Frederick the Great—I To His Generals Before Invading Silesia (1740) |
239
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II To His Generals Before the Battle of Leuthen (1757) |
241
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Bismarck—The Canossa Speech (1872) |
243
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Kossuth—On His Welcome to New York (1851) |
249
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Castelar—Plea for a Republic in Spain (1869) |
255
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Apponyi—On the Death of Louis Kossuth (1894) |
262
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