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 ''.

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.

A celebrated example is Pericles ' funeral oration, which heaps honour on the dead and includes a defence of democracy:

Theodore composed a long funeral oration, the Laudatio Platonis, which remains one of the most important sources for the history of the family.

In the days following the assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson made an address to Congress: " No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the Civil Rights Bill for which he fought so long.

* Lamia a work by the Italian humanist Angelo Poliziano, consisting of an opening oration, in which he offers a fable-tinted history of philosophy

As a preacher his reputation was so great that in 1509, during which both King Henry VII and the Lady Margaret died, Fisher was appointed to preach the funeral oration on both occasions, the texts being still extant.

His great skill seems to have consisted in delivering grand show speeches ; and Plato has him arrogantly declaring that he would travel to Olympia, and there deliver before the assembled Greeks an oration on any subject that might be proposed to him ; and Philostratus in fact speaks of several such orations delivered at Olympia, and which created great sensation.

Despite his magnificent oration in his defence ( which so impresses Demosthenes that he resolves to study oratory ), Callistratus is condemned to death.

He received an unprecedented standing ovation for his oration, which included the words:

He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.

That year two supremely dramatic events were witnessed by the Forum, perhaps the most famous ever to transpire there: Marc Antony's funeral oration for Caesar ( immortalized in Shakespeare's famous play ) was delivered from the partially completed speaker's platform known as the New Rostra and the public burning of Caesar's body occurred on a site directly across from the Rostra around which the Temple to the Deified Caesar was subsequently built by his great-nephew Octavius ( Augustus ).

The presiding magistrate began each meeting with a speech ( the verba fecit ), which was usually brief, but was sometimes a lengthy oration.

In 1826 he published an oration in which he advocated universal suffrage and the foundation of the state on the power of the whole people.

In his oration he says that she had to read ancient poetry, such as the Odyssey, in secret because her parents disapproved of its dealing with poly-theism and other “ dangerous exploits ,” which were considered “ dangerous ” for men and “ excessively insidious ” for women.

" Lycées " being organically linked to the University of France and its Faculties since their Napoleonic institution ( the " baccalauréat " was awarded by juries made of university professors ) Cousin was " crowned " in the ancient hall of the Sorbonne for a Latin oration he wrote which owned him a first prize at the " concours général ", a competition between the best pupils at " lycées " ( established under the Ancien Régime and reinstated under the First Empire, and still extant ).

In his first address to Congress on November 27, 1963, Johnson told the legislators, " No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.

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!

The highlight was when one actor, typically one of the endmen, delivered a faux-black-dialect stump speech, a long oration about anything from nonsense to science, society, or politics, during which the dim-witted character tried to speak eloquently, only to deliver countless malapropisms, jokes, and unintentional puns.

A sermon pronounced before Philip III at Salamanca in 1605 brought Paravicino into notice ; he rose to high posts in his order, was entrusted with important foreign missions, became royal preacher in 1616, and on the death of Philip III in 1621 delivered a famous funeral oration which was the subject of acute controversy.

On 15 July the third reading of the Bill took place and Cranborne spoke first, in a speech which his biographer Andrew Roberts has called " possibly the greatest oration of a career full of powerful parliamentary speeches ".

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

Octavius delivered the funeral oration for his grandmother.

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.

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

of " λεξικός " ( lexikos ), " of or for words ", from " λέξις " ( lexis ), " speech ", " word ", ( in turn from " λέγω " lego " to say ", " to speak ") + "- λογία ", (- logia ), " the study of ", a suffix derived from " λόγος " ( logos ), amongst others meaning " speech, oration, discourse, quote, study, calculation, reason ", it turn also from " λέγω ".

In 2007, Abu Dhabi TV begain airing Million's Poet, a show featuring Pop Idol-style voting and elimination, but for the writing and oration of Arabic poetry.

After Caesar's death, Brutus delivers an oration defending his actions, and for the moment, the crowd is on his side.

Edna Dean Proctor wrote an ode for the event and " There was also an oration suitable for declamation.

The Romans generally confined the panegyric to the living, and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead.

" It was later remarked that Walker's untimely and irrelevant oration was not just for Buncombe — it " was Buncombe.

* The Players of The New Cosmogony, a fictional Nobel Prize oration in A Perfect Vacuum by Stanisław Lem, are altering the laws of physics for their own purposes.

# A funeral oration for his mother, including a large amount of autobiographic information.

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

The Duke of Northumberland's oration, held before Jane the previous day, did not move her to accept the Crown — her parents ' assistance was required for that.

According to Pliny the Elder ( NH VII. 30 ) he could sell a single oration for twenty talents.

It is an oration at commencement exercises in U. S. and Canadian high schools, colleges, and universities delivered by one of the graduates.

Storer College was built in Harpers Ferry as one of the first integrated schools in the U. S. Frederick Douglass served as a trustee of the college, and delivered a memorable oration on the subject of John Brown there in 1881.

In the same year Guerrazzi was banished to Montepulciano for six months after writing an oration to the memory of Cosimo Del Fante — a native of Livorno who had embraced the ideals of the French Revolution and whom Guerrazzi held up as an example for the idealists of the risorgimento.

Various competitions are held during Mapun Day, which includes singing competitions ( in English, Tagalog, and Pullun Mapun ), dance showdowns ( modern dance, folk dance, pangalay, which is a native dance, and lunsay, which is a dance performed during weddings ), Azaan competition, Tarasul iban Daman ( Mapun's version of declamation and oration ), and Leleng, to name a few.