But only a very few of these are strictly occasional; the great majority are chiefly, if not wholly, political speeches, containing merely passages here and there in the same vein as his great commemorative addresses.

Before finally leaving the subject, however, it will be well to glance for a moment at the few orations which properly belong to the same class as the first two which we have been considering.
The Bunker Hill oration, after the lapse of only a year, was followed by the celebrated eulogy upon Adams and Jefferson.

This usually and with justice is ranked in merit with its two immediate predecessors.

As a whole it is not, perhaps, quite so much admired, but it contains the famous imaginary speech of John Adams, which is the best known and most hackneyed passage in any of these orations.

The opening lines, "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote," since Mr.Webster first pronounced them in Faneuil Hall, have risen even to the dignity of a familiar quotation.