Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page xvi
... Demosthenes was his pupil , destined to surpass him and the rest of the illustrious company . One and all these furnished their countrymen excellencies to study and imitate until no trait of eloquence was unrepresented . Together they ...
... Demosthenes was his pupil , destined to surpass him and the rest of the illustrious company . One and all these furnished their countrymen excellencies to study and imitate until no trait of eloquence was unrepresented . Together they ...
Page xxi
... Demosthenes in his own and subsequent centuries . The two differed as men of two races differ in methods and manner , but they will always stand for the best achievement in two supreme periods of eloquence in the ancient world . " Ad As ...
... Demosthenes in his own and subsequent centuries . The two differed as men of two races differ in methods and manner , but they will always stand for the best achievement in two supreme periods of eloquence in the ancient world . " Ad As ...
Page 76
... Demosthenes of old formed himself to the perfection of eloquence by means of addresses to the crowd . The great comic poet of Greece , emphatically the poet of the vulgar mob , is distinguished above all others for the in- comparable ...
... Demosthenes of old formed himself to the perfection of eloquence by means of addresses to the crowd . The great comic poet of Greece , emphatically the poet of the vulgar mob , is distinguished above all others for the in- comparable ...
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