The Deuteronomist, or D, has a distinctive hortatory style and vocabulary, calling for Israel's conformity with YHWH's covenant laws and stressing his election of Israel as his special people (for a detailed consideration of D, see below Deuteronomy: Introductory discourse).
Among the older cultures of Europe, Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 68), the Italian poet and Nobel laureate, appended critical and hortatory essays to some of his volumes of verse, such as Il falso e vero verde (1956; "The False and True Green").
This forceful, almost hortatory essay by George Bernard Shaw first appeared in the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1926), the same year Shaw received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty".
That is to be expected in epistolary literature, and, although less inevitably, in the essay, the travel book, journalistic reporting, and polemical or hortatory prose.
Mystical writing reached a remarkable lyrical intensity in the poetry and hortatory prose of a Brabantine laywoman, Hadewijch (late 12th to early 13th century), and this inspired later mystics, greatest of whom was Jan van Ruysbroeck, a disciple of the German mystic Meister Eckehart and the Netherlands' greatest medieval prose writer.
The population was registered; a land tax (based on the nature of the crops and the amount of arable land) was instituted and revised triennially; new penal and civil codes were drawn up utilizing Confucian moral precepts; and, following the practices of the Chinese Ming dynasty (1368 1644), hortatory works of Confucian moral precepts were periodically read in every village in the country.
Chapters 5 11 contain an introductory speech by Moses, largely hortatory.
Like Nasser, Nehru, and Mao, he ruled his 100,000,000 people by vague, hortatory slogans that added up to a personal ideology with nationalist and Communist overtones.
Further, since the patterns of Qurʾānic commentary were largely hortatory, Hadith was a ready mine of word and story calculated to exemplify and reinforce what exhortation commended.
His range extended from the bibulous "A Wee Deoch an' Doris" to the hortatory "End of the Road".
This is sometimes followed by a hortatory discourse.
