“Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth...… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
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