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Especially when the mind is already preoccupied with inward thirstings after the glory of the rostrum; it will not be apt to sigh for the camp, or the noise and tinsel of mere military fame. It is related of him that when a boy, he was present at a great council held on the Shenandoah. Many nations were there represented by their wise men and orators.
The singular variety of his career could hardly be paralleled outside of the United States. If his industry had been equal to his natural gifts he would have been one of the first orators in the country. At the close of his last term he went to New York and engaged in the practice of law in company with Mr.
As it exists, in the libraries, I will only say that the conclusions of both orators were in everything favourable to M. le Duc d'Orleans. After they had spoken, the Duc du Maine, seeing himself totally shorn, tried a last resource.
Sleep as soundly as you please, you two, because while you're sleeping I can carry on an intellectual conversation." The hunter laughed again. "It's no use, Tayoga," he said. "You can't put him down. The fifty wise old sachems in the vale of Onondaga proclaimed him a great orator, and great orators must always have their way." "It is so," said the Onondaga. "The voice of Dagaeoga is like a river.
I learned that neither of them believed in a mesalliance, that the question I had heard was a rhetorical question merely, one not expecting an answer, much used by orators to express a strong negation of the sentiments apparently contained in the question. But I have not yet learned which girl it was who asked the question.
All the more marked is the contrast between this general moderation and the revolting treatment of Corinth a treatment disapproved by the orators who defended the destruction of Numantia and Carthage, and far from justified, even according to Roman international law, by the abusive language uttered against the Roman deputies in the streets of Corinth.
It was their effect to bring into nearer contact people from the several parts of Greece, and to stimulate and publicly reward talent, as well as bodily vigor. They afforded orators, poets, and historians the best opportunities of rehearsing their productions. Herodotus is said to have read his History, and Isocrates to have recited his Panegyric at the Olympic games.
As the orator gradually became the most powerful influence in the State, the art of oratory was more and more recognized as the supreme accomplishment of the educated man. Demosthenes Demosthenes stands preeminent among Greek orators. His well-known oration "On the Crown," the preparation of which occupied a large part of seven years, is regarded as the oratorical masterpiece of all history.
Some of the most eloquent orators in the world have been Irishmen, and among them Henry Grattan was supreme. The Irish Parliament in the later half of the eighteenth century frequently sat spell-bound under the magic of his voice. In 1782, at the age of thirty-two, he achieved by his amazing eloquence a great National Revolution in Ireland.
Each day the debate grew more animated and personal; charges were made and recriminations followed: the republicans enumerated the acts of misrule and oppression under the government of the late protector; the courtiers balanced the account with similar instances from the proceedings of their adversaries during the sway of the long parliament; the orators, amidst the
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