Here are a few of my favorite anti-government philippics. From Wordnik.com. [Living With Music: An Anti-Government Playlist by Jeffrey Rotter - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
England, that surpassed the force and grandeur of the philippics of. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
I will not indulge in futile philippics against enemies I never met in battle. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
The short term not only encourages painful social philippics, but also fair-weather friends. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
The short term not only encourages painful social philippics, but also fair-weather friends. From Wordnik.com. [Wishing away hierarchy is hypocrisy] Reference
It remained for Seymour, however, to give character to the discussion in one of his most forcible philippics. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
In these philippics, it is customary, in particular, to trot out the phrase "trial lawyers" at the first opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [Tort "Reform" 2] Reference
O'Connell's philippics against American slavery, and, being given the opportunity, declaimed it with much earnestness. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
"Cassier!" was muttered by the astounded debaters who had listened to the vituperative philippics of the Portuguese merchant. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
The former takes longer walks than usual, breaks out in philippics against tyrannies of all kinds, and swears ten times a day that the. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
They are lumbering, sprawling stories (727 and 1,168 pages respectively), wrapped around Rand's real points, which are political pamphlets in the form of her heroes 'philippics. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference
The philippics of Cicero had taken effect, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
That's off limits, except for anti-Israel philippics. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest on Air America] Reference
Very fatal to himself were the odes and philippics of M. From Wordnik.com. [Books Fatal to Their Authors] Reference
I shall not repeat the elegant philippics with which I was greeted. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer] Reference
Ask the most eloquent writer of philippics who has known, say a score of. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War] Reference
But in these laboured and eloquent philippics against the Government of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816] Reference
The author might here turn his philippics against Salmasius to good account. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
Let us quote one of his philippics, since bitters are understood to be wholesome. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
Vienna lectures of 1810 foretoken Ruskin's philippics against railways and factories. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The press of Dublin teemed with philippics and satires, upon his creatures and himself. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2] Reference
Savonarola meanwhile could not long be silent; he resumed his philippics as fiercely as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference
Rising abruptly, therefore, he broke out at once in one of the plainest philippics of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"] Reference
He wrote like a modern Demosthenes, with all political New York to quiver under his philippics. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed] Reference
His philippics and lampoons are sometimes of the severest sort, and strike deeper than the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising] Reference
The Hanoverian philippics of “Mr Trott-Plaid” were still resounding in the Jacobite's Journal. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding A Memoir]
Danby obsequiously appeared, and stood in the doorway, well knowing the philippics that were coming. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
He seeks mental relief in philippics against the cavalry officer, -- the man to whom he owes so much. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference
The list of his philippics fills nearly a whole folio volume of the British Museum Library Catalogue. From Wordnik.com. [Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries] Reference
He had studied the philippics of Demosthenes, and felt the spirit of the dead orator living in them still. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History] Reference
Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
Churches were distracted and at discord, and the pulpit, for the first time in Georgia, desecrated by political philippics. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
Formerly this well-known incident was often cited in whispered philippics to illustrate the evils of the autocratic form of government. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
's, where I heard renewed philippics directed by the ladies against the Yankees. From Wordnik.com. [Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863] Reference
“anti-scrape” philippics and the tapestry weaving, it is in entire harmony with them. From Wordnik.com. [Old Familiar Faces] Reference
With what satisfaction did I remember all Miss Debby Kittery's philippics against Ellery Davenport!. From Wordnik.com. [Oldtown Folks] Reference
1795, when Burke penned these reckless philippics, order was only too easy in France. From Wordnik.com. [Burke]
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