philippic
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I will not treat my readers to any of these specimens of the art Philippic, but will confine myself to a few business excerpts instead, taken indiscriminately from the New York and Boston papers.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
Then it was that he spoke the third Philippic, and in the evening of the same day he spoke the fourth to the people.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
To write a scurrilous attack, such as the second Philippic, is a bad exercise for the ingenuity of a great man; but so is any anonymous satire.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
This was the eighth Philippic, and is perhaps the finest of them all.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
It was on the receipt of the news in Rome of the first battle, but before the second had been fought, that the last Philippic was spoken.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
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