Orations in a sentence

Alcibiades and Athens ch.2 app.2 Besides these four orations we possess only a few fragments and some very vague allusions to other orations.

Party stalwarts, as well as bereaved family members could not hold back tears as they took turns to give funeral orations at the combined church service for the deceased politicians.

A cousin, Eulalios, published several of Gregory's more noteworthy works in 391. : xi By 400, Rufinius began translating his orations into Latin.

A few extracts from the five orations on Chrysostom were preserved by Photius (codex 273).

Also in 342 BC, he delivered the Third Philippic, which is considered to be the best of his political orations.

As political orations go, it was relatively short, some 3,400 words, and to the point.

Cicero procured a senatus consultum ultimum (a declaration of martial law ) and drove Catiline from the city with four vehement speeches (the Catiline Orations ), which to this day remain outstanding examples of his rhetorical style.

Cicero, Seven orations, 1912 Cicero was also an energetic writer with an interest in a wide variety of subjects, in keeping with the Hellenistic philosophical and rhetorical traditions in which he was trained.

Cicero's many works can be divided into four groups: (1) letters, (2) rhetorical treatises, (3) philosophical works, and (4) orations.

During this period, Athanasius completed his work Four Orations against the Arians and defended his own recent conduct in the Apology to Constantius and Apology for His Flight.

Hence his orations have no mannerism in them, and are really, as Plutarch says, simple and free from all rhetorical pomp and ornament.

In Demosthenes's initial judicial orations, the influence of both Lysias and Isaeus is obvious, but his marked, original style is already revealed.

Instead of dealing with the timeless issues of being and becoming, of matter and form, of definitions and demonstrations, he is thrown into orations about widows and orphans, about the corruption of judges and affairs of the market place.

Irving H. Bartlett, Daniel Webster (1978) Remini points out that Webster's historical orations taught Americans their history before textbooks were widely available.

It was here that Gregory preached the first of his great episcopal orations.

Most of Demosthenes' major orations were directed against the growing power of King Philip II of Macedon.

See how the 1992 edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites a variety of Gregory's orations Paul Tillich credits Gregory of Nazianzus for having "created the definitive formulae for the doctrine of the trinity".

Selected orations and letters of Cicero: To which is added the Catiline of Sallust ; with historical introduction, an outline of the Roman constitution, notes, vocabulary and index.

The Council asked him to appear once more for a farewell ritual and celebratory orations.

The gathering featured speakers from various backgrounds giving public orations commemorating Hu and discussing social problems.