" Caleb paused here, and perhaps the greatest orator could not have chosen either his pause or his images better for the occasion.
In the preceding February he had resigned his charge and departed amid the regrets of his people, most of whom had the affection born of long intercourse for their good old minister in spite of his shortcomings as an orator.
They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
"As a matter of fact," he went on, "your classmates have voted unanimously for you to be class orator.
I don't know, orator that he was, whether he would have noticed the missing punctuation.
" asked the orator.
# Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Orator, chapter 34, section 120 The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
