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The Colonies are our hope we look to the Colonies!" The handsome old man raised an oratorical hand, and looked round on his audience, like one to whom public speaking was second nature. Anderson made a gesture of assent; he was not really expected to say anything. Mariette in the background observed the speaker with an amused and critical detachment.
They'd cleaned up the Oratorical debt, and somehow there was about three times as much money in the Athletic treasury after the football season as there had ever been before. But they'd raised a lot of trouble too. No passes. Dues had to be paid up. Nobody got any fun out of the class affairs. They got up lectures and teas and made the class pay for them.
He had not the iron temper of a great reformer and organizer like Knox, who, true Scotchman that he was, found a way to weld this world and the other together in a cast-iron creed; but he had as much as any man ever had that gift of a great preacher to make the oratorical fervor which persuades himself while it lasts into the abiding conviction of his hearers.
Another wise precaution consists in foreseeing objections and in preparing such answers as will enable one to refute them. Eloquence is one of the most useful achievements of poise; it is also the gift that best aids one to acquire it. It is, therefore, indispensable to train oneself to speak in a refined and correct manner. The man who is sure of his oratorical powers will never be at a loss.
But David was a friend of his of years' standing, and he was a dog I should call naturally gifted, and with that of a friendly nature, sober, decent, middle-aged, comfortable, and one who took things as they came. But Flannagan had hair that was wild and red, and his complexion was similar. He was large and bony. His voice was windy, his manner oratorical, and his nature sudden.
We could afford to lose an oratorical contest it just meant no bonfire for another year but we had our hearts set on that track meet. We were up against our lifelong rivals Muggledorfer, the State Normal, Kiowa, Hambletonian, and all the rest of them. We had to win I don't know why. Beats all how many things you have to do in college that don't seem so absolutely necessary a few years afterward.
Still would I not have their armor appear squalid and covered with rust, but retain rather a brightness that dismays, such as of polished steel, striking both the mind and eyes with awe, and not the splendor of gold and silver, a weak safeguard, indeed, and rather dangerous to the bearer. History, likewise, by its mild and grateful sap may afford kind nutriment to an oratorical composition.
Ladies an' gintlemen, was ye iver invited before to the weddin' of a man of me impressive looks an' oratorical gifts, that first published his own banns, an' thin proposed, in your intelligent an' sympathetic prisence, to a lady of exalted ancesthry an' pre-eminent fame? Ye was not? Ye have now that unparallelled experience.
Webster always spoke slightingly of his early oratorical efforts, and requested Mr. Everett, the editor of his works, not to search them out. He was not just to the productions of his youth, if we may judge from the Fourth-of-July oration which he delivered in 1800, when he was a Junior at Dartmouth, eighteen years of age.
He had arrived at that stage when people affected as he was are oratorical, and overflowing with information and good-nature.
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