Political Eloquence in Greece: Demosthenes. With Extracts from His Orations, and a Critical Discussion of the "Trial on the Crown."S. C. Griggs, 1881 - 510 страници |
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Страница 102 - Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore, Give me TO SEE, — and Ajax asks no more.
Страница 315 - I believe him! for don't suppose that he who speaks so loud is not a splendid howler! In the daytime you led your noble orgiasts, crowned with fennel and poplar, through the highways, squeezing the big-cheeked serpents, and lifting them over your head, and shouting Evoe Saboe, and capering to the words Hyes Attes, Attes Hyes...
Страница 21 - Here Heaven an elegance of form denies, But wisdom the defect of form supplies : This man with energy of thought controls, And steals with modest violence our souls...
Страница 248 - ... office, or advantage. Now, contrariwise, the statesmen dispose of emoluments; through them everything is done; you the people, enervated, stripped of treasure and allies, are become as underlings and hangers-on, happy if these persons dole you out show-money or send you paltry beeves; and, the unmanliest part of all, you are grateful for receiving your own.
Страница 171 - ... distribution of their money to yourselves, and strictly examining into the conduct of the general ; then, your time will be no longer wasted in continual debates upon the same subject, and scarcely to any purpose ; then, you will deprive him of the most considerable of his revenues. For his arms are now supported by seizing and making prizes of those who pass the seas. — But is this all ? — No. — You shall also be secure from his attempts : not as when some time since...
Страница 319 - I may say, of his own wickedness and iniquities, of which I was obliged to clear myself to those who are younger than the events. You too have probably been disgusted who knew this man's venality before I spoke a word. He calls it friendship indeed; and said somewhere in his speech — "the man who reproaches me with the friendship of Alexander.
Страница 258 - Lacedaemonians or from us, was at least inflicted by genuine people of Greece; and it might be felt in the same manner as if a lawful son, born to a large fortune, committed some fault or error in the management of it ; on that ground one would consider him open to censure and reproach, yet it could not be said that he was an alien, and not heir to the property which he so dealt with. But if a slave or a spurious child wasted and spoiled what he had no interest in — Heavens ! how much more heinous...
Страница 241 - Athenians, in undertaking the battle for the freedom and safety of all! I swear it by your forefathers —those that met the peril at Marathon, those that took the field at...
Страница 240 - Deity so wills it ; but then — claiming precedency over others, and afterward abandoning her pretensions — she would have incurred the charge of betraying all to Philip. Why, had we resigned without a struggle that which our ancestors encountered every danger to win, who would not have spit upon you...
Страница 247 - ... hundred talents to no purpose; the allies, whom we gained in war, these persons have lost in peace, and we have trained up against ourselves an enemy thus formidable. Or let any one come forward and tell me, by whose contrivance but ours Philip has grown strong. Well, sir, this looks bad, but things at home are better. What proof can be adduced? The parapets that are whitewashed? The roads that are repaired? fountains, and fooleries?