The momentum of his own philippics had brought Saul Fulton to his feet.
Often Boone went to hear Morgan delivering hisphilippics to street corner audiences, and often too he dropped around inconspicuously to listen as that administration orator popularly called "The Bull" exhorted "the pure in heart.
Great effects these, and if the world could but see and know what the machinery is which produces them, how such crushing philippics are planned and executed, they would be surprised.
Formerly this well-known incident was often cited in whispered philippics to illustrate the evils of the autocratic form of government.
Their philippics are directed not against Peter the Great and his reforms, but rather against recent Ministers of Foreign Affairs who are thought to have shown themselves too subservient to foreign Powers, and against M.
Philippics and satires in prose and verse were written by the dozen, and circulated in hundreds of copies.
The Philippics against Antony, like those of Demosthenes, derive their chief beauty from the noble expression of just indignation, which indeed composes many of the most splendid and admired passages of ancient eloquence.
He wished to know "what gentlemen can intend, expect, or hope, from these perpetual philippics against the government?
Forty-two he has spoken hitherto, of which something of the story has been told; the Philippics of which I have got to speak are fourteen in number, making the total number of speeches which we possess to be fifty-six.
We now come to the three purely moral essays, the last written of his works, except the Philippics and certain of his letters, and the Topica.
Let any man look to the last year of his life, when the Philippics were coming hot from his brain and eager from his mouth, and ask himself how much of Greek philosophy he finds in them.
He did believe, while the Philippics were going on, that he was stirring up a mighty power to arouse itself and claim its proper dominion over the world.
Pusillanimity, and pretence, in regard to those Philippics in which he seems to have courted death by every harsh word that he uttered!
While he was speaking his Philippics they could not but be enthusiastic on the same side.
During the speaking of the Philippics the Republican party had been strong and Cicero had been held in favor.
The name, it should be understood, has been adopted from a jocular allusion by Cicero to the Philippics of Demosthenes, made in a letter to Brutus.
Often in these Philippics the matter is small enough.
All the old spirit of 1776, rekindling the newspapers from Boston to Charleston, proves this; and even the monocrat papers are obliged to publish the most furious philippics against England.
He had memorized one of Daniel O'Connell's philippics against American slavery, and, being given the opportunity, declaimed it with much earnestness.
There was nothing in the eloquence of Demosthenes in Athens, of Cicero in Rome, of Mirabeau in France, of Pitt or Gladstone in England, that surpassed the force and grandeur of the philippics of Adams against American slavery.
The philippics of Cicero had taken effect, and the Senate and the government were now opposed to Antonius, as the creator of a new revolution.
Marcellus, and in the days of the Philippics was sent as one of a deputation to Antony.
But Juvenal has given no opinion of Cicero's poetry, having simply quoted one unfortunate line noted for its egotism, and declared that Cicero would never have had his head cut off had his philippics been of the same nature.
Macaulay, expressing his surprise at the fecundity of Cicero, and then passing on to the praise of the Philippics as senatorial speeches, says of him that he seems to have been at the head of the "minds of the second order.
There are wonderful morsels in the philippics dealing with Antony's private character; but the words which he uses against Gabinius and Piso beat all that I know elsewhere in the science of invective.
For the proper understanding of this, the bearing of Cicero toward Antony during the whole period of the Philippics must be considered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "philippics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
