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... shocked, scandalized air, had he not recognized in one of the party a clergyman, he would have delivered an extempore philippic on the extraordinary habits of his niece: respect for ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... the first of September, and delivered his first Philippic the next day, in the same Temple of Concord in which he had denounced Catiline twenty years before. He then retired from the city, and did not hear the abusive tirade with which Antony attempted to blacken his reputation. In October he prepared ...

— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman

... opinions should be banished. He said we should have open minds to hear the arguments and the evidence to be introduced, as if it were a solemn trial in a court of justice. When he was in the midst of a very eloquent and violent philippic, the Chairman of the Committee, Bainbridge Wadleigh, said quietly, "Brother Saulsbury, haven't you made up your mind?" Mr. Saulsbury stopped a moment, said, "Yes, I have made up my mind," broke into a roar of laughter, and ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... amused to philosophise. The fair Argemone has just been treating me to her three hundred and sixty-fifth philippic ...

— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley

... himself—had heard from the lips of Demosthenes—that the strongest fortress of a free people against a tyrant was distrust. That sentiment, worthy of eternal memory, the Prince declared that he had taken from the "divine philippic," to engrave upon the heart, of the nation, and he prayed God that he might be more readily believed than the great orator had been ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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