Sentence examples for extant speeches from inspiring English sources
Elsewhere, his narrative is solidly grounded in extant speeches and court transcripts – though even with a rich body of endnotes it is sometimes difficult to be wholly certain where research stops and reconstruction begins.
In the last year of his life, he opposed Mark Antony's efforts to undermine Republican rule in Rome and denounced him in a series of extant speeches that attain a level of vituperation more redolent of a hip-hop beef than the golden age of Latin prose: "You donned the toga of manhood, but you soon turned it into a womanly costume.
Most of his extant speeches for private cases written early in his career show glimpses of talent: a powerful intellectual drive, masterly selection (and omission) of facts, and a confident assertion of the justice of his case, all ensuring the dominance of his viewpoint over his rival.
At the trial Aeschines's extant speech Against Ctesiphon was answered by Demosthenes in his masterpiece On the Crown.
In 344 3, when Demosthenes accused him again in a speech, Aeschines replied in the fine extant speech having the same title On the False Embassy and was again acquitted.
Justice Scalia tries to slam the door by claiming that the first amendment should be limited to the "then extant speech rights of Englishmen" in 1791 when the amendment was passed.
On a second embassy in 346 to ratify a peace Aeschines's delaying tactics caused the famous orator Demosthenes and Timarchus to accuse him of treason, a charge which he successfully rebutted in the strong extant speech Against Timarchus.
In 1990 Amirkhanian completed an extended spoken word portrait of the late American composer Morton Feldman, incorporating his extant recorded speeches and conversations, on commission from Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest (Loudspeakers, 1990).
His extant writings include display speeches, purportedly in defence of Helen and Palamedes against charges of treachery (DK 82B11 and 11a); they seem to be intended partly as examples of stylistic brilliance for its own sake and partly as demonstration of skill in adversarial argument, 'making the weaker argument the stronger' (see above).
No complete text of the Otis speech is extant, but see notes of Horace Gray, Jr., in Quincy's Massachusetts Reports for 17611762, App.
These numbers are only the extant species, those alive today.
