He gave a funeral oration on Queen Mary.

The next morning Cicero assembled the people, and gave a further oration.

In front of an electoral assembly at Senlis, Adalberon gave a stirring oration and pleaded to the nobles:

At his funeral, Senator Nora Connolly O ' Brien, daughter of the Easter Rising leader James Connolly, gave the oration.

He was twenty when he gave the funeral oration for Doge Nicholas Marcello.

At his graduation ceremony in 1904, he gave his class oration as valedictorian.

He also won a silver medal for his Latin verses on John Milton, gave the annual Latin oration in 1738, and was noted as having been the favourite student of his masters.

In addition to his oratorical contributions in meetings of the Massachusetts legislature, he gave the 4th of July oration in Boston in 1835 ; he spoke on “ Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession ” to the Mercantile Library Association ( 1850 ); he spoke before the New York Pilgrim Society ( 1851 ); and he delivered a eulogy on Daniel Webster in 1852.

He gave many an oration from O ' Donovan's Hotel on the Main Street of Clonakilty.

He was a friend of Honoré Mirabeau, whose policy he supported and whose funeral oration he gave.

Éamon de Valera, the Fianna Fáil leader, gave the funeral oration.

On Sunday 19 August 2007, Puttnam gave the oration at the annual Michael Collins commemoration in Béal na Bláth, County Cork.

Wesselhoeft gave the oration at Parker's funeral

Frederick the Great gave the funeral oration, which remains the major biographical source on La Mettrie's life.

On May 10, 1984, Walker gave one such fiery oration that irritated Speaker Tip O ' Neill because the cameras did not show Walker was speaking to a deserted chamber.

There is a legend, among the populace of Épinal, that Napoleon's ghost strolls the wall ramparts on 9 September of each year at 5: 00 am It was on this day and at this time that, in 1811, Napoleon gave his first and last oration to the city of Épinal, wherein he addressed the challenges posed by northern expansion.

He gave the first lectures delivered in the Cutlerian Theatre in Warwick Lane, in 1680 delivered the Harveian oration, and was president in 1689 and 1691.

Daniel O ' Connell, also known as ' The Liberator ' or ' The Emancipator ' and Ireland's predominant political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century, reputedly gave an oration to the Carlow townspeople from the top of the college's front porch.

He gave the funeral oration over Christian III in St John's Church at Odense in February 1559, though now very infirm and blind, and died at the end of the same year.

John Joe McGirl, McDonnell's election agent in Sligo-Leitrim, gave the oration at his funeral.

His advancement does not seem to have impaired their mutual regard ; Herodes declared that the unfinished speeches of his scholar were " the fragments of a colossus ," and Adrianus showed his gratitude by a funeral oration which he pronounced over the ashes of his master.

The Rus ' attack on Constantinople in June 860 took the Greeks by surprise, " like a thunderbolt from heaven ," as it was put by Patriarch Photios in his famous oration written for the occasion.

His three-hour oration not only excoriated the McCalmont Brothers ' " cowardly meanness ," but accused them and their American agents, Kidder, Peabody, of working in league with the Pennsylvania Railroad in order to attempt moving the Reading into the sphere of control of that much larger corporation.

He was also the author of several shorter works, amongst them being a funeral oration on John Vatatzes, an epitaph on his wife Irene Laskarina and a panegyric of Theodore II Laskaris of Nicaea.

On 10 March Vergniaud delivered a powerful oration in which he denounced the intrigues of the court and uttered his famous apostrophe to the Tuileries: " In ancient times fear and terror have often issued from that famous palace ; let them re-enter it to-day in the name of the law!

During the ceremony, Dietrich backed towards some doors to close them ; the judge interrupted his oration, and without change in tone or pace said: " And do you, Kenneth, take Kathleen for your lawful-wedded -- I wouldn't stand with your ass to an open door in this office lady -- wife to have and to hold?

Two of them, however, ( Orations 23 and 33, and perhaps Oration 28 ) are not fully preserved, and one ( Oration 25 ) is a brief statement, not a full oration.

* May 4-While exploring the James River, the English party first make contact with the Paspahegh, enjoy a feast with them, and listen to, but are unable to understand, an oration by the Paspahegh weroance, Wowinchapuncke.

Phelps lectured on medical jurisprudence at the University of Vermont in 1881-1883, and on constitutional law at Boston University in 1882-1883, and delivered numerous addresses, among them The United States Supreme Court and the Sovereignty of the People at the centennial celebration of the Federal Judiciary in 1890, and an oration at the dedication of the Bennington Battle Monument, unveiled in 1891 at the centennial of Vermont's admission to the Union.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

Octavius delivered the funeral oration for his grandmother.

The oration of Eumenius, in which he pleaded for the restoration of the schools of his native place Augustodunum, shows that the district was neglected.

Confidential and personal in nature, it is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed, and not at all for the public or any kind of publicity ... An Epistle is an artistic literary form, just like the dialogue, the oration, or the drama.

An epitaph ( from Greek epitaphion " a funeral oration " from ἐπί epi " at, over " and τάφος taphos " tomb ") is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively.

He was given a secular funeral, and the funeral oration was delivered by the American Moncure D. Conway, the secularist after whom Conway Hall was later named.

Union ( American Civil War ) | Union soldiers dead at Battle of Gettysburg | Gettysburg, photographed by Timothy H. O ' Sullivan, July 5 – 6, 1863Letter of David Wills ( Gettysburg ) | David Wills inviting Abraham Lincoln to make a few remarks, noting that Edward Everett would deliver the oration

" Lincoln's address followed the oration by Edward Everett, who subsequently included a copy of the Gettysburg Address in his 1864 book about the event ( Address of the Hon.

He was elected quaestor for 69 BC, and during that year he delivered the funeral oration for his aunt Julia.

( Julian expresses his gratitude to the empress Eusebia in his third oration.

The " Inner Kerameikos " was the former " potters ' quarter " within the city and " Outer Kerameikos " covers the cemetery and also the Dēmósion Sēma ( δημόσιον σῆμα, public graveyard ) just outside the city walls, where Pericles delivered his funeral oration in 431 BC.

He cemented his place in Stalin's entourage with a lengthy oration titled, " On the History of the Bolshevik Organisations in Transcaucasia " ( later published as a book ), which emphasized Stalin's role in it.

His " oration " on this occasion, which was immediately published in the French Mercure, remains a striking landmark in the history of French Protestantism.

Greek oration is known from the works of classical antiquity.

This Latin style was the primary form of oration in the world until the beginning of the 20th century.

After World War II there began a gradual deprecation of the Latin style of oration.

Public speaking and oration are sometimes considered some of the most importantly valued skills that an individual can possess.

Examples are Pericles ' funeral oration in 427 B. C. E.

" This concentration rejected the elaborate style characteristic of the classical oration.

For the Romans, oration became an important part of public life.

* Salonina Matidia, a niece of Trajan dies, Hadrian delivers her a funeral oration and granted her a temple in Rome.