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The funeral orations of Bossuet, pronounced at the interment of Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, and Louis of Bourbon, Prince of Condé. Translated from the French. To which are prefixed, biographical sketches Of The Above Personages; and observations on the other orations of the Bishop of Meaux; with select extracts.
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.Date: 1800
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A discourse on submission to the Divine will under affliction, delivered by Samuel Macclintock, A.M. Minister of the Gospel at Greenland, at the funeral of the Revd. Alpheus Spring of Kittery; who died June 14th 1791, in the 52d year of his age; much lamented, as a great loss to the church of God and to the public, as well as to his family and particular acquaintance.
Macclintock, Samuel, 1732-1804.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]
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My Lord, in pursuance of an order of council, Your Lordship is desired to attend on His late Majesty's funeral, appointed to be solemnized on Tuesday the eleventh of this instant November, and to be in the House of Lords at seven of the clock in the afternoon of that day, in order to be marshaled for that ceremony. ...
Great Britain. Earl Marshal.Date: 1760]
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Funeral oration on the death of General Washington. Delivered, at the request of Congress, by Major-General Henry Lee, member of Congress from Virginia.
Lee, Henry, 1756-1818.Date: [1800]
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The funeral oration of Lewis XV the well-beloved King of France and Navarre. Pronounced in the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint Denis, the 27 of July, 1774. By Messire de Beauvais Lord - Bishop of Senez.
Beauvais, Jean Baptiste Charles Marie de, 1731-1790.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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Universis patribus, fratribus, ac sororibus ordinis prædicatorum Fr. Pius Joseph Gaddi Sacrae Theologiae Professor Ejusdemoue Ordinis Humilis Vicarius, ET Procurator Generalis, AC Servus, salutem, et mortis recordationem.
Gaddi, Joseph.Date: 1800?]
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The funeral oration on the most high, most potent, and most excellent Prince Lewis XIV. King of France and Navarre. Pronounc'd at Paris in the church of Nôtre Dame, in the presence of the Duke of Orleans, regent of the kingdom, the Duke of Bourbon, and the Duke of Charolois, November the 28th, 1715. By Messire Jacques Maboul, Bishop of Alet. Translated from the French Original Printed at Paris. Translated from the French original printed at Paris.
Maboul, Jacques, 1650-1723.Date: [1716]
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Oratio habita coram Academia Cantabrigiensi in templo Beatae Mariae, die solenni martyrii Caroli primi regis, A.D. MDCCXXX. A Joanne Taylor, A. M. Collegii Divi Joannis Evangelistae Socio.
Taylor, John, 1704-1766.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]
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A funeral oration. Occasioned by the death of General George Washington. Written at the request of the Boston Mechanic Association, and delivered before them, on the 22d of Feb. 1800. By Joseph Tuckerman. [Four lines in Latin from Seneca]
Tuckerman, Joseph, 1778-1840.Date: [1800]
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An oration, on the death of Roger Williams Howell, a member of the senior class of Rhode Island College, who died October 7, 1792, aetat. 20. Pronounced in the college-chapel, November 22, 1792. By Paul Allen, Jun. classmate of the deceased. Published at the request of the students. [Five lines from Thomson]
Allen, Paul, 1775-1826.Date: [1792]
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A funeral oration (in the manner of the antient Romans) on the late Charles Lucas, Esq; M.D. representative in Parliament for the city of Dublin. Pronounced on Monday November 18th before the Dublin Oratorial Academy. By J.S. Dodd, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons of London, Surgeon of His Majesty's Royal Navy, and President of the said Academy.
Dodd, James Solas, 1721-1805.Date: 1771
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A funeral oration on George Washington, late general of the armies of the United States. Pronounced, at Oxford, Massachusetts, at the request of the field officers of the brigade stationed at that place, on the 15th Jan. 1800; it being the day devoted to the funeral honors of their departed chief, pursuant to general orders from the secretary at war. By Josiah Dunham, A.M. Capt. 16th U.S. Regiment. [Two lines from Shakespeare]
Dunham, Josiah, 1769-1844.Date: [1800]
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Oraison funebre, de tres haut, tres puissant, & Tres Excellent Prince Guillaume III. Roy d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse, de France, & d'Irlande, defenseur de la foy, &c.
Date: 1702
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A funeral oration upon the death of the most high, most mighty, most excellent, and most religious prince, James the Second, Late King of Great-Britain. spoken the 19th day of September, 1702. in the church of St. Mary de Chaillot, where his Majesty's Heart is Deposited. By Messire Henry Emmanuel de Rouquette, Doctor of the Sorbonne; Abbot of St Gildas de Rhuis. Done cut of the 13th Edition of French.
Roquette, Henri-Emmanuel de, -1725.Date: Printed in the Year 1703
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A funeral oration, on the late sovereign pontiff pius the sixth. By the rev. Arthur O'leary; to which is prefixed, an account of the solemn obsequies performed to his memory, at Saint Patrick's chapel, Sutton-street, Soho, by order of Monsignore Erskine, his holiness's auditor, on Saturday, the 16th of November 1799.
O'Leary, Arthur, 1729-1802.Date: [1799]
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Oratio funebris, in memoriam Frederici Serenissimi Principis Walliæ, &c. habita ad prætorem electum et magistratus urbis Norvici, Apud Scholam Norvicensem. Junii 18. 1751. = Or, a funeral oration, to the memory of His late Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales. Spoke to the Mayor and Magistrates upon the Guild-Day, at Norwich School. June the 18th, 1751.
Date: [1751]
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A funeral oration for His most sacred Majesty King George the Second. Delivered the Sunday after His Majesty's death. By E. Radcliff.
Radcliff, Ebenezer.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]
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Two orations in praise of Athenians slain in battle. From the Greek. With reflexions.
Date: 1759
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Oratio funebris in obitum Edvardi Wigglesworth, S.T.P. quam, in sacello Holdeniano, apud Collegium Harvardianum, ... habuit Josephus Taylor, ...
Taylor, Joseph, 1745?-1816.Date: 1765]
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A funeral oration on the death of Mr. Elizur Belden, of Wethersfield. A senior sophister, in Yale-College: who died April 8th, 1786, aetat. 23. Delivered in the college-chapel, June 8th, 1786. By Reuben Hitchcock, fellow-student of the deceased. [Four lines in Latin from Cicero]
Hitchcock, Reuben, 1764-1794.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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A funeral oration, delivered in the chapel of Rhode-Island College, on Wednesday, XXIXth of June, 1796, occasioned by the death of Mr. Alva Spalding, a member of the junior class. By Nathan Holman, class-mate of the deceased. Published at the request of the students.
Holman, Nathan, 1769-1844.Date: 1796
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L'evangile du jour Contenant Le taureau blanc traduit du Syriaque. Fragments sur l'Inde, sur le général lalli & sur le comte de morangiés. Oraison funebre de Charles-Emanuel roi de Sardaigne & Duc de Savoye. Prononcée XVII mars 1773.
Voltaire, 1694-1778.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]
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A funeral oration upon the death of the most high, most mighty, most excellent, and most religious prince, James the Second, King of Great-Britain. spoken the 19th day of September, 1702. in the church of St. Mary de Chaillot, where His Majesty's Heart is Deposited. By Messire Henry Emmanuel de Rouquette, Doctor of the Sorbonne; Abbot of St. Gildas de Rhuis. Done out of the 13th Edition of French.
Roquette, Henri-Emmanuel de, -1725.Date: Printed in the Year, 1703
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Apotheosis: A funeral oration, sacred to the memory of the most noble, John, Duke of Marlborough. As it was spoken on the day of his interment. Form'd upon the manner of the ancients. By Mr. Henley.
Henley, John, 1692-1756.Date: 1722]