The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... never written a forensic speech . This statement is decisively re- jected by Dionysius , who concludes , on the authority of Cephisodorus , the orator's pupil , that Isocrates wrote a certain number of such speeches , though not nearly ...
... never written a forensic speech . This statement is decisively re- jected by Dionysius , who concludes , on the authority of Cephisodorus , the orator's pupil , that Isocrates wrote a certain number of such speeches , though not nearly ...
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... never be for- gotten that the Theôric fund meant essentially a provision for public worship and only accidentally a provision for public amusement . When Eubulus took office as Treasurer in 354 , he brought in a law making it capital to ...
... never be for- gotten that the Theôric fund meant essentially a provision for public worship and only accidentally a provision for public amusement . When Eubulus took office as Treasurer in 354 , he brought in a law making it capital to ...
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... never under a democracy were we worse governed ; yet in practice and in our policy we prefer this to the democracy handed down by our fathers . " 2 His ideal is the elder democracy of Solon and Cleisthenes . Under it , citizens were not ...
... never under a democracy were we worse governed ; yet in practice and in our policy we prefer this to the democracy handed down by our fathers . " 2 His ideal is the elder democracy of Solon and Cleisthenes . Under it , citizens were not ...
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... never kindled to a brighter flame than by the glories of his city or his race . Cicero's powers , naturally more various , " were more thoroughly brought out and far better 1 [ Plut . ] Vit . Isocr .: Paus . I. 18 : Philostr . 1. 17 ...
... never kindled to a brighter flame than by the glories of his city or his race . Cicero's powers , naturally more various , " were more thoroughly brought out and far better 1 [ Plut . ] Vit . Isocr .: Paus . I. 18 : Philostr . 1. 17 ...
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... never have been drawn into the sphere of the philoso- phers , should have set before his mind some interests wider and higher than those suggested by the routine of business or pleasure in his own city . Besides this intellectual gain ...
... never have been drawn into the sphere of the philoso- phers , should have set before his mind some interests wider and higher than those suggested by the routine of business or pleasure in his own city . Besides this intellectual gain ...
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Page 423 - And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality.
Page 423 - I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it.
Page 423 - This great honour, this high and noble dignity, hath continued ever since in the remarkable surname of De Vere, by so many ages, descents, and generations, as no other kingdom can produce such a peer in one and the self-same name and title.
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Page 412 - The people gave their voice, and the danger that hung upon our borders went by like a cloud. Then was the time for the upright citizen to show the world if he could suggest anything better: — now, his cavils come too late.
Page 391 - Aye, and there, I deem, will be Miltiades and Themistocles, and those others who made Hellas free, to the credit of their city, to the glory of their names, — whom this man surpassed in courage and in counsel, seeing that they repelled the power of the barbarians when it had come against them, but he forbade its approach ; they saw the foemen fighting in their own country, but he worsted his enemies on their own soil.
Page 383 - ... and even with their boldest achievements, the meanness of a pedlar, and the profligacy of pirates. Alike in the political and the military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals ; and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits ; an army employed in executing an arrest; a town besieged on a note of hand; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account.
Page 406 - His young companions in the chase or the gymnasium? No, by the Olympian Zeus! He has not spent his life in hunting or in any healthful exercise, but in cultivating rhetoric to be used against men of property. Think of his boastfulness when he claims by his embassy to have snatched Byzantium out of the hands of Philip, to have thrown the Acharnians into revolt, to have astonished the Thebans with his harangue!
Page 446 - Archons by the lot and Generals by the uplifted hand ; but the fierce Democracy has sunk into the lifelessness of a cheerless and dishonoured old age ; its decrees consist of fulsome adulation of foreign kings...