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Excerpt from The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History The Golden Age lasted almost one hundred years. It began with Lord Chatham, the greatest of English extemporaneous speakers; it included the activities of Erskine, the most talented forensic orator of his country's history; it ended before Disraeli and Gladstone, the greatest of debaters and most powerful of platform Speakers, had passed from English political life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.