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MOOS: Peroration, the concluding part of a discourse.
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MOOS: Peroration -- the concluding part of a discourse.
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MOOS (on camera): Peroration, the concluding part of a discourse.
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MOOS: Peroration, the concluding part of a discourse.
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I take it this Peroration for Milo, may be studied as a Model of the Pathetic.
John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966
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Peroration: Both to be spoken from the Rostrum, in the Manner of certain
Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden
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Pathos, Peroration, see! it has all fled, like a gibbering troop of ghosts, like the phantasms of a dying brain!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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We now come to the Peroration, in which, skilfully and without appearance of design, it is contrived that the same sort of appeal to the purity of
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 Thomas Moore 1815
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Jay was to have written a concluding Peroration: but being always a little lazy and perhaps concluding upon the whole that it might be most politick to keep his Name out of it, and perhaps finding that the Work was already well done he neglected it.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 31 January 1796 1796
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Peroration of Opening Speech against Edmund Burke Warren Hastings 201
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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