April 6, 1899 Dear Mother, After going to so much trouble to get a declamation it is not going to do me any good.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
I sat next the Duke of Coburg, who more particularly took this class view with very little reasoning and a great deal of declamation.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
James Russell Lowell long ago made a remark to the effect that democracy is government by declamation, and certainly household suffrage has loosened the tongues of public men.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell