Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... Demosthenes , it was scarcely pos- sible to persuade or compel the Athenians to enlist for foreign service . The laws of Lycur gus prohibited trade and manufactures . The Spartans , therefore , continued to form a national force , long ...
... Demosthenes , it was scarcely pos- sible to persuade or compel the Athenians to enlist for foreign service . The laws of Lycur gus prohibited trade and manufactures . The Spartans , therefore , continued to form a national force , long ...
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... Demosthenes particularly , history ; but he has not written a good history ; in which it would be impossible to alter a he is , from the first to the last chapter , an in- word , without altering it for the worse . But ventor . We do ...
... Demosthenes particularly , history ; but he has not written a good history ; in which it would be impossible to alter a he is , from the first to the last chapter , an in- word , without altering it for the worse . But ventor . We do ...
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... Demosthenes , " he said to Mrs. Thrale , " were a people of brutes , a barbarous people . " In conversation with Sir Adam Ferguson he used similar language . " The boasted Athenians , " he said , " were barbarians . The inass of every ...
... Demosthenes , " he said to Mrs. Thrale , " were a people of brutes , a barbarous people . " In conversation with Sir Adam Ferguson he used similar language . " The boasted Athenians , " he said , " were barbarians . The inass of every ...
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... Demosthenes never comes unseasonably . Dante never stays too long . No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero . No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet . Nothing , then , can be more natural than that a person of ...
... Demosthenes never comes unseasonably . Dante never stays too long . No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero . No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet . Nothing , then , can be more natural than that a person of ...
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... Demosthenes noticed it with contempt more than two thousand years ago . Latimer , we have seen , treated this so- phistry with similar disdain . " Leave colour- ing , " said he , " and call these things by their Christian name , bribes ...
... Demosthenes noticed it with contempt more than two thousand years ago . Latimer , we have seen , treated this so- phistry with similar disdain . " Leave colour- ing , " said he , " and call these things by their Christian name , bribes ...
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