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Phillips, live in literature; the wrath which answered them in Southern orators and newspapers has left less of record; but on both sides the work was effectually done of sowing mutual suspicion and hate.

The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement George Spring Merriam 1878

Sen. Troy Hebert, one of the Legislature's more colorful orators from the Acadian region, has shed his formal affiliation with the Democratic party to become an independent

New Orleans Saints Central 2010

Every community is cursed with a number of "orators" -- men regarded as

The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

Besides, there is no favourite of a monarch which cannot as well succour his friends as hurt his enemies: but orators, that is to say, favourites of sovereign assemblies, though they have great power to hurt, have little to save.

Leviathan 2007

SOCRATES: The profession of the great wise ones who are called orators and lawyers; for these persuade men by their art and make them think whatever they like, but they do not teach them.

Theaetetus 2007

His reign was prosperous and long: Matthias aspired to the glory of a conqueror and a saint: but his purest merit is the encouragement of learning; and the Latin orators and historians, who were invited from Italy by the son, have shed the iustre of their eloquence on the father’s character.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

All these, indeed, will be called orators, just as bad painters are still called painters; not differing from one another in kind, but in ability.

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Here was none of the boredom of most political speeches, none of the long sonorous sentences with classical allusions which the big-name orators of the day poured out.

Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Alma Lutz

The favorite theme of the orators was the "martyrdom" of John Brown; the piratical and murderous raid of that fanatic into the State of Virginia being exalted into a praiseworthy act of heroism.

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

There are always among mobs of this description orators, that is to say, beings who have more assurance than the rest; a woman of this description told the Queen that she must now remove far from her all such courtiers as ruin kings, and that she must love the inhabitants of her good city.

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