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The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ... In the Roman Catholic Church, an "oratory" also refers to ...

* Leeman, Richard W. "Do everything" Reform: The Oratory of Frances E. Willard. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 0313274878 ...

Darrow remains notable for his oratory utilizing the wit, compassion ... Darrow's eloquent oratory continued in his pleading for their ...

The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of pious reason over passion. Among churches other than the ...

Other surviving works by Tacitus include Oratory (Dialogus de oratoribus ... Tacitus’ ancestry, his skill in oratory, and his sympathetic depiction ...

and approaches (in terms of poetry and oratory) into the early church, ... theologically-astute sermons and powerful oratory gradually united the parish. ...

orandi" ("the standard of oratory") and underscored that ... himself for the trials and improved his oratory skill. As an adolescent ...

His aunt, Katharine Gray, founder of the Syracuse Oratory School, played his character's aunt. On November 9, 1882, Baum married Maud Gage ...

foster-son of a wealthy freedman, practiced oratory almost to the middle of his life—more due to his disposition than because he was preparing himself ...

for more than five hours, and the effect of his oratory was such that it was unanimously agreed to adjourn and postpone the final decision till the House ...

their ghosts, lyrical passages and rhetorical oratory—brought to many humanist tragedies a concentration on rhetoric and language over dramatic action. ...

, kapa haka (group performance), whaikorero (oratory), and moko (tattoo) are common throughout the country. Practitioners often follow the techniques ...

of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory. He has also published a ... and public performance into the use of oratory ("Okwu Oka"— ...

American Greek Revival and the classical funereal oratory of Athens, as well as the transcendentalism of Unitarian minister and abolitionist Theodore ...

origins. First, the Haudenosaunee often ended their oratory with the phrase "hiro kone"; "hiro" which translates as "I have spoken ...

Harvard, as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory (formerly visiting professor) 1985–1997, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at ...

instruct younger scholars. He also lectured on oratory, on Virgil and Livy. He was awarded the Bacheolor of Divinity degree in 1519, but never consented ...

Father Francis Xavier Morgan of the Birmingham Oratory in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. He lived there in the shadow of Perrott's Folly and ...

often contradictory image. Patton's great oratory skill is seen as integral to his ability to inspire troops under his command. ...