" This little speech was delivered in rather an excited manner by Mr. Nixon.

We had eloquent speeches, songs, and interesting anecdotes.

He tells us of five hundred scudi given to Lorenzo Valle with a pretty speech that the price was below his merits, but that eventually he should have more liberal pay; of fifteen hundred scudi given to Guerroni for a translation of the Iliad, and so forth.

To be brief, my lords: if I have lived honourably among you, if I have never given plain speech to any, avenge my wrongs.

Of Cicero's threefold purpose, to teach, to please, and to move, he retains only teaching as pertinent to effective public speech.

Seemingly it had none, after the first sullen glance thrown him by the young man; and the coroner sighed again, but this time softly, and as a prelude to the following speech: "We can understand," said he, "why you should feel so strongly against one who has divided the hearts of your sisters, and played with one, if not with both.

that he has no better speech!

"Having concluded his able speech, Mr. Buchanan called his witnesses, and the evidence, which on second hearing seemed more damning than ever, was all gone through again.

Then the company proceeded to the tomb of Washington (the old one on the brow of the hill), when Mr. Custis, after a brief speech, presented the general with a gold ring containing a lock of Washington's hair.

The evening before the wedding Uncle John and the Major claimed Arthur for their own, and after an hour's conference between the three that left the young fellow more happy and grateful than ever before, he was entertained at his last "bachelor dinner," where he made a remarkable speech and was lustily cheered.

These passionate speeches, however they might have struck his wife in an ordinary way, now seemed to be her chief comfort.

His proposal he made to the younger lady in a long, set speech, in which he explained, first of all, his general reasons for marrying, and then his reasons for directing his matrimonial views to Longbourn, finally assuring her that on the subject of the small portion she would bring him no ungenerous reproach should ever pass his lips when they were married.

" It was a rude speech, and my hard voice and common clothes made it ruder.

But Mr. Sumner was of opinion, and I entirely agreed with him, that if the object was to obtain my discharge from prison, that object was to be accomplished, not by agitating the matter in the senate, but by private appeals to the equity and the conscience of the President; nor did he think, nor I either, that my interests ought to be sacrificed for the opportunity to make an anti-slavery speech.

" After the presentation of this valuable gift, Abraham felt that the time had come for him to make a speechpractically his maiden speech.

In the Latin charters of King Alfred the same name appears; but it is never seen or heard in his native speech.

The Boy began to feel that, if he did finally say something it would be as surprising as to hear an aged monkey break into articulate speech.

The art of interpretative speech.

The speeches made by his opponents, assuredly very bitter, are not given by Thucydides; but that of Pericles himself is set down at considerable length, and a memorable discourse it is.

The content of rhetoric included all that the ancients had learned to be of value in persuasive public speech.

Violent speech choked him and he felt a cold, tight blanching of his face.

" Said the Bishop to himself, while he looked grimly at Robin, "When this wedding is gone by I will have this fellow well whipped for his saucy tongue and bold speech.

We deem it unnecessary to give any specimen of Mr. Rowe's poetry; the most celebrated speeches in his plays, which are beautifully harmonious; are repeated by every body who reads poetry, or attends plays; and to suppose the reader ignorant of them, would be to degrade him from that rank of intelligence, without which he can be little illuminated by perusing the Lives of the Poets.

This civil speech was properly acknowledged, and Mr. Effingham addressed himself to Captain Truck, to whom, in the hurry of the moment, he had not yet said half that his feelings dictated.

In my first parliamentary speech, which was on occasion of this very right of search, I exposed myself to much animosity in defending her.