Declaimers

Jean – Jacques a declaimer; Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The declaimers we have mentioned would wish men to bury the riches that might be accumulated by the fortune of war, or by agriculture, commerce, and industry in general. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is often said that Voltaire's Romans are mere creatures of parade and declamation, like the figures of David's paintings, and it is very likely that the theatre infected the French people with that mischievous idea of the Romans, as a nation of declaimers about freedom and the death of tyrants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All our declaimers exclaim against idolatry like little dogs, that yelp when they hear a great one bark. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Meet one or two malignant declaimers, and we are weary of life, and distrust the permanence of good institutions. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She had a permanent fixed smile and struck me as one of those conversational declaimers: people who make remarks that are in the general vicinity of the discussion but are not in direct response to any previous comments. ❋ Jonathan Ames (2004)

You, my daughter, will not prove yourself one of those ineffectual declaimers, who can think vigorously, but cannot act so! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Some of these students would be chosen as commencement declaimers. ❋ Erika Lindemann (2004)

Perverse declaimers may plead in excuse, that the woman was allured by the beauty of the tree, and the man ensnared by the blandishments of Eve. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

Not even “loose and ignorant declaimers” had taken this ground; no, every criticism of the treaty had been in small points, not in total. ❋ Richard Harwell (1968)

We shall endeavor to show, that the very laws or institution which is supposed by fanatical declaimers to shut out liberty from the Negro race among us, really shuts out the most frightful _license_ and disorder from society. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

I know perfectly well how this will be regarded by a class of reasoners or declaimers, as imposing ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

Attempts at insurrection have indeed been made -- excited, as we believe, by the agitation of the abolitionists and declaimers on slavery; but these have been in every instance promptly suppressed. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

It may aggravate the condition of slaves in the South, but the result of the Missouri question, and the attitude of parties, have silenced most of the declaimers on the subject. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

No man of distinction, no man of birth, and no man of property was ever engaged in those coffee-house conspiracies; their Jaffiers and Pierres were cobblers and tinkers, with a sprinkling of petty pamphleteers, and ruined declaimers. ❋ Various (N/A)

But if Fox was the most powerful of declaimers, Pitt was the mightiest master of the language of national council. ❋ Various (N/A)

We refer to the fact that they have upheld the most extreme publications, and made common cause with the most reckless declaimers. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)