“[…] there is ſuch confuſion in my powers, / As after ſome Oration fairely ſpoke / By a beloued Prince, there doth appeare / Among the buzzing pleaſed multitude.”

“And vpon a ſet day Herod arayed in royall apparell, ſate vpon his throne, and made an Oration vnto them.”

“1752, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 207, 10 March ⟳, 1752, in Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 279, The masters of rhetorick direct ⟳, that the most forcible arguments be produced in the latter part of an oration, lest they should be effaced or perplexed by supervenient images.”

“[…] when the provinces again displayed their old flags (proscribed in Guzman Bento’s time) there was another of those great orations, when Don José greeted these old emblems of the war of Independence, brought out again in the name ⟳ of new Ideals.”

“My Landlord was likewiſe beginning his Oration to Jones, but was preſently interrupted by that generous Youth, who ſhook him heartily by the Hand; and aſſured him of entire Forgiveneſs […]”

“Sally bustled off to set ⟳ on the kettle for tea, and felt half ashamed, in the quiet of the kitchen, to think ⟳ of the oration she had made in the parlour.”

“The supper things cleared away, Gerald resumed his oration, but with little satisfaction to himself and none at all to his audience.”

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