Sentences with phrase «orator who»

Rev. Beecher was a fiery orator who responded to this nonsense.

Not only could he speak Greek fluently, but he was a spell - binding orator who knew the scripture thoroughly.

But it follows from this that the orator who «uses» testimony, who puts forward someone as a witness, is not master.

There the church was Latin - speaking and produced great writers and leaders such as Tertullian (c.160 - c. 225), who was brought up in Carthage, and Cyprian (d. 258), who was a pagan orator who was converted to Christianity in about 246 and who, two years later, was elected Bishop of Carthage.

Not exact matches

The aforementioned orator was, of course, Cato the Elder, a noted Roman senator and inveigher against the Carthaginians who clamored for the destruction of Rome's great challenger in what became the Third Punic War.

As all know, the featured speaker of the day was Edward Everett, the most famous orator of the time, a spellbinder who took two hours to say the many things appropriate to say upon the dedication of a military cemetery.

Brown's life parallels that of Douglass in that he too was born into slavery and escaped to become an abolitionist, writer, and orator, who gave nearly a thousand lectures favoring the abolitionist cause in England, Ireland, Scotland.

Douglass (1817 - 1895) was an African American Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) clergyman who was born into slavery and who escaped from slavery and joined the abolitionists» struggle as an internationally known orator, fund raiser, newspaper publisher, and editor.

To exalt him as a great thinker, as though he could take delight in being praised for having honed his mental tools very sharp, no matter what they cut; to speak admiringly of him as an excellent orator, as though adeptness in the use of images were an enviable thing, no matter what they imaged; to do him reverence as a great student who learned from Newton and Locke and the Platonists, from nature itself, no matter what he learned — to honor him thus is to do him no honor that he could accept — or which, accepting, he would not thereafter bitterly rue.

The success of a movement that will turn the world upside down by means of a message, a «gospel,» would seem to require orators and wordsmiths, not a bunch of agrammatoi and idiotai who respond first by trying to beg off on account of their uncircumcised and unclean lips.

Woe unto the slack orators, woe unto the loose thinkers, and woe, woe unto all the adherents who have learnt from them and extolled them!

Outdone Legendary courtroom orator William Jennings Bryan, by lawyer Bill Diehl, who in defending Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn against charges that Shinn had sexually assaulted a woman, argued that the alleged oral sex was consensual, saying, «If she ain't bitin», she ain't fightin».»

Mario Cuomo famously said «you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose» and if he was the orator, his son is the operator, the one who passes state budgets on time and — as when he resolved a threatened Long Island Rail Road strike last year — makes trains run on schedule.

«W.Hague - who will not have acted without the agreement of Andy Coulson and George Osborne» - as Hague is the only good orator on our side I hope it was just a question of the other two getting an advanced copy of his speech and not Hague taking any advice from those two.

There are those who say he's one of the best speakers (but not orators) in the Labour party and you can see why; he engages an audience.

He also mentions Messala Corvinus, the orator, who lost recollection of even his own name.

When the troubled farmer begins to realize the error of his choice, he enlists the aid of the one man who might save him: the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster.

Some may enjoy an unending stream of theoretical positing, but Criterion's selected the right orator; one who weighs his words with the experience of having seen the film upon its theatrical debut, having met the director over the years, and a writer at heart who understands the value of supporting his observations with historical facts and quotes from published interviews with the film's cast and crew.

The award is presented to an individual whose principles of personal commitment, integrity, and achievement reflect those of the late Mr. Mays, who was a scholar, orator, writer, and civil rights figure.

Among those who died was the the great general, orator and statesman, Pericles, the defacto leader of Athens.

An arboretum for the senses, Fallah's A Stranger In Your Home serves as optical orator, incorporating his own complex identity as he takes on the stories of immigrants from around the world who -LSB-...]

The panel painting, which stands at a massive 8.5 feet tall, portrays a West African griot or someone who served as a storyteller, orator, or musician.

She's an artist who pushes the medium of painting in a variety of directions — taking on methods of storytelling that are perhaps more closely linked to the function of historical or even religious artworks, as well as print media, as orators.

The four most prominent accused were: Thomas Hardy, a shoemaker of Piccadilly, who was secretary of the main radical movement, the London Corresponding Society; John Horne Tooke, a clergyman of the Church of England and later a member of parliament; Thomas Holcroft, a popular playwright; and John Thelwall, the leading orator of the LCS, who later in life became the founder of the science of elocution.

Let's remember her love of life, and the powerful inspiration of her namesake, the great orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass who said, «Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.»