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  • Previous recent recipients include Greenfyre's, run by Mike Kaulbars, honestpoet who runs the Enough is Enough blog, and Honjii of Honjii's Harangues, among other worthy bloggers.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Sou 2010

  • Previous recent recipients include Greenfyre's, run by Mike Kaulbars, honestpoet who runs the Enough is Enough blog, and Honjii of Honjii's Harangues, among other worthy bloggers.

    Congrats to SkepticalScience.com Sou 2010

  • All seems lost when "the young ambitious bold St. Just/Harangues the mob" (3. 23-4), and a

    Introduction 2007

  • Wherefore, I would not baulk her Fancy, but let her catch the Discourse for which she laid a Trap, and oppos'd all the little Harangues she made against Cupid and Hymen; and with due Respect and Veneration asserted the Greatness of their Power, the

    Exilius 2008

  • It was not long e'er this poor Wretch began to find herself ill and out of Order: She came to me, hearing that I had some Skill in Physick; but I perceiving her Distemper to be such as I did not well understand, nor cared to meddle withal, recommended her to a Physician of my Acquaintance, who was more used to the immodest Harangues necessary on such Occasions.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • You'd change your learn'd Harangues for Country Chat,

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Harangues of this kind, listened to with approbation, induced some persons to stand for the military tribuneship, each avowing that if in office he would propose something to the advantage of the commons.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • Harangues and hailstorms, brawls and broken necks;

    Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

  • Debate, or Argument, the chief exercise of the wit consists in uncontroulable Harangues and Reasonings, which must neither be questioned nor contradicted; there is great danger lest the Party, thro 'this habit, shou'd suffer much by Cruditys, Indigestions,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various

  • Harangues of this sort were listened to with approval, and some were induced to stand for a consular tribuneship, each of them promising to bring in some measure in the interest of the plebs.

    The History of Rome, Vol. I 1905

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