My Fourth of July ritual includes re-reading Frederick Douglass' speech "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" In 1852, the famous escaped slave-turned-orator delivered the scorcher of a speech, which slammed American courts, northern financiers, churches and cowardly politicians.
Here are excerpts from a speech by the grandest Republican orator of his time, delivered during the 1876 campaign to an audience of Union Army veterans and their families in Indianapolis, Indiana: I am a Republican.
Second, it is considered impolite for an orator to draw out a speech beyond the normally allotted time.
The New Yorker, April 11 , 1936P. 9 A gentleman walked across Columbus Circle and stopped to listen to an orator, who was delivering a speech of vaguely radical nature, which soon turned into a discussion of the situation in Germany.
By Clifton Fadiman and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, April 11 , 1936P. 9 A gentleman walked across Columbus Circle and stopped to listen to an orator, who was delivering a speech of vaguely radical nature, which soon turned into a discussion of the situation in Germany.
The article also misidentified the classical orator who, like a girl in the program, overcame a speech problem.
He was not inspired to a speech career by any sports voice, but by two Vincentian priests, one a "fiery orator," and the other a "semantic craftsman," he once said.
The first is a brilliantly executed parody of the style of Lysias (an orator and speech writer of significant repute).
Clegg's not a great orator, and this is not a speech for the anthologies, but Clegg did have a message for his party ("there's no going back") and a message for the public ("we're less bad than the others") and they were clearly delivered.
Adler wrote about how the ancient Greek statesman Demosthenes became a renowned orator by fighting to overcome a speech impediment with what is likely the first "system" for treating speech disorders: A handful of stones inserted in one's mouth while standing by the seashore.
The orator Aristides once promised to dedicate a speech in return for safe passage across the Mediterranean.
