Well done on this find; nothing like discovering a gem like this going for next to nothing (I found one just yesterday in a second hand book shop: F W Mote’s highly regarded ‘Imperial China 900-1800’, available on Amazon for £77 but I got it for £12.60! Also my full edition of Churchill’s history of WWII in very handsome hardcover volumes I found at an Oxfam for a very reasonable price).
You’re very correct in your assessment of the decline of oratory; Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph yesterday said they printed a full Keir Starmer speech in The Spectator and buried an offer of free champagne halfway through the text (no one claimed it).
Looking forward to reading these essays,
however could I be finicky and request a quick proof read of the text here - there are a number of spelling and formatting mistakes and it is somewhat distracting, a shame when there are so many profound insights.
Great article. So good it's pushed me to a hitherto undreamt of point where I feel I actually have to pay you something. Looking forward to the mini essays on the contributors.
After how you described the waggish tone of the introductory article, I thought it might not be as dominated by politicians and their affairs as it seems to be, but I'm probably underappreciating how diverse politicians and their affairs could actually be back then.
My thrift store (or charity shops as we call them in ireland, ) would never stock anything like that. Though the manager told me they get 3000 books a day! Trying to persuade her to let me in every day for a quick look before everything goes in the wood chipper...
A friend randomly sent me this blog (the dirt bikes post) and I subscribed immediately. I don't know how to say it, but it really is unique, in a good way.
If you can find it, you’d probably like ‘Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student’, an older style how-two textbook with plenty of speeches as examples. Also Thucydides relates how only Alcibiades could have roused the Athenians on one occasion; with speech.
This is the best thing I've read since I don't know when. Thanks.
Well done on this find; nothing like discovering a gem like this going for next to nothing (I found one just yesterday in a second hand book shop: F W Mote’s highly regarded ‘Imperial China 900-1800’, available on Amazon for £77 but I got it for £12.60! Also my full edition of Churchill’s history of WWII in very handsome hardcover volumes I found at an Oxfam for a very reasonable price).
You’re very correct in your assessment of the decline of oratory; Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph yesterday said they printed a full Keir Starmer speech in The Spectator and buried an offer of free champagne halfway through the text (no one claimed it).
Looking forward to reading these essays,
however could I be finicky and request a quick proof read of the text here - there are a number of spelling and formatting mistakes and it is somewhat distracting, a shame when there are so many profound insights.
Good luck with this project!
Libraries destroying old books and periodicals is one of the most upsetting tragedies of our time. I try not to think about it too much.
Lovely find, this volume of oratory. What are the odds. Congratulations.
Looking forward.
Fantastic job on this, I couldn’t stop reading it. Well done!
Great article. So good it's pushed me to a hitherto undreamt of point where I feel I actually have to pay you something. Looking forward to the mini essays on the contributors.
After how you described the waggish tone of the introductory article, I thought it might not be as dominated by politicians and their affairs as it seems to be, but I'm probably underappreciating how diverse politicians and their affairs could actually be back then.
My thrift store (or charity shops as we call them in ireland, ) would never stock anything like that. Though the manager told me they get 3000 books a day! Trying to persuade her to let me in every day for a quick look before everything goes in the wood chipper...
A friend randomly sent me this blog (the dirt bikes post) and I subscribed immediately. I don't know how to say it, but it really is unique, in a good way.
If you can find it, you’d probably like ‘Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student’, an older style how-two textbook with plenty of speeches as examples. Also Thucydides relates how only Alcibiades could have roused the Athenians on one occasion; with speech.
Beautifully written, excellent article - thank you so much!
What a well crafted excellent post.