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Perhaps in his last hours Sargent stumbled upon this musing from that compendium: “People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2017

A few, Montgéron says, translate, after the ecstasy, what they have declaimed, during its continuance, in an unknown tongue; but for this, of course, we have their word only.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various

They have declaimed in parliament, and they have declaimed in print, against all the gymnastic exercises which time immemorial have been the pride and the pastime of the hardy natives of the British islands.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

Others have declaimed on the theme that the knowledge of history is mischievous and paralyses.

From Introduction to the Study of History by Berry, George Godfrey

Greater orators have declaimed less sincere funeral orations.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley