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Even Greeley's historic philippic, as famous for its style as for its deadly venom, came in revenge for Tweed's supposed part in defeating him for Congress in 1866.— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
The speech was not intended as a philippic; it was designed as a careful exposition of the Virginia debt question, as an argument in support of the Readjuster party, and an arraignment of the Bourbons.— Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
When he was in the midst of a very eloquent and violent philippic, the Chairman of the Committee, Bainbridge Wadleigh, said quietly, "Brother Saulsbury, haven't you made up your mind?"— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
In me Christianity ... devours itself In truth, the present philippic is as necessary to the completeness of the whole of Nietzsche's system as the keystone is to the arch.— The Antichrist
This philippic was well deserved by the government; had they really desired that the pear should ripen before they plucked it, they could not have proceeded otherwise than they did.— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

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