It was the deliberate expression of the mind of men practised in affairs, exercised in the deliberations of the Senate, the harangues of the public assemblies, the pleadings of the courts,-of men accustomed to determine and explain questions of law and to draw up edicts binding on all subjects of the State,-trained, moreover, to a sense of literary form by the study of Greek rhetoric, and naturally guided to clearness and dignity of expression by the orderly understanding, the strong hold on reality, and the authoritative bearing which were their birthright as Romans.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
He convinces us no more than he does the mixed company at the "Hand and Banner," which listens with pitying incredulity to his passionate harangues.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
In 1834 Lord Brougham made the unfortunate series of harangues in Scotland that wrecked his political career.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell