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In one important respect the speeches in Homer display a feature which is absent from most Greek oratory — they are debating speeches . They do not give that impression of formal composition and elaborate preparation characteristic of ...
In one important respect the speeches in Homer display a feature which is absent from most Greek oratory — they are debating speeches . They do not give that impression of formal composition and elaborate preparation characteristic of ...
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If used , not as . a seasoning but as a regular dish , they make the speech frigid . ... And of written speeches Aristotle tells us that they should be easy to read and easy to utter , which is the same thing .
If used , not as . a seasoning but as a regular dish , they make the speech frigid . ... And of written speeches Aristotle tells us that they should be easy to read and easy to utter , which is the same thing .
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The enormous attention given in Rome to the art of oratory makes us wonder why so few speeches , apart from those of Cicero ... for the Greek practice of preparing a speech for the client to deliver was not followed in Rome , where the ...
The enormous attention given in Rome to the art of oratory makes us wonder why so few speeches , apart from those of Cicero ... for the Greek practice of preparing a speech for the client to deliver was not followed in Rome , where the ...
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JANUARY 1953 | 1 |
A Humanitarian Prophet | 7 |
CONTENTS No 593 JULY 1952 | 11 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1953 |
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