The World's Great Classics: Orations of Demosthenes

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Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne
Colonial Press, 1900
Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor.
 

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Seite 432 - Was he not to secure Eubcea as our defence against all attacks by sea? Was he not to make Bceotia our barrier on the midland side ? the cities bordering on Peloponnesus our bulwark on that quarter?
Seite 409 - And with reason : for who can reflect without astonishment on the magnanimity of those men who resigned their lands, gave up their city, and embarked in their ships, to avoid the odious state of subjection?
Seite 436 - And in this affection you find me firm and invariable. Not the solemn demand of my person, not the vengeance of the Amphictyonic council which they denounced against me, not the terror of their threatenings, not the flattery of their promises, no, nor the fury of those accursed wretches, whom they roused like wild beasts against me, could ever tear this affection from my breast.
Seite 406 - ... when he ought to speak ; but when some melancholy accident hath happened, he dwells on this with the most invidious censure. That was the time (I repeat it) for a man sincerely attached to his country, and to truth. Yet, such is my confidence in the abundant merits of my cause, that if any man can, now, point out a better course, nay, if there be any course at all, but that which I pursued, I shall confess myself criminal; for if any more expedient conduct hath been now discovered, I allow that...
Seite 33 - It is not then suprising, that he who is himself ever amidst the dangers and labours of the field ; who is every where ; whom no opportunity escapes ; to whom no season is unfavourable ; should be superior to you, who are wholly engaged in contriving delays, and framing decrees, and inquiring after news. I am not surprised at this, for the contrary must have...
Seite 324 - ... prizes to a few, and those the most worthy, and on such conditions as the laws prescribe, you will have many champions in this contest of merit. But if you gratify any man that pleases, or those who can secure the strongest interest, you will be the means of corrupting the very best natural dispositions. That you may conceive the force of what I here advance, I must explain myself still more clearly. Which, think ye, was the more worthy citizen — Themistocles, who commanded your fleet when...
Seite 408 - ... had you bellowed out your terrible denunciations (you, whose voice was never heard) ; yet, even in such a case, must this city have pursued the very same conduct if she had retained a thought of glory, of her ancestors, or of future times : for thus she could only have been deemed unfortunate in her attempts ; and misfortunes are the lot of all men whenever it may please Heaven to inflict them.
Seite 343 - Persia ; when they were scarcely restrained from killing a man connected with the people in the most sacred ties, and by public proclamation forbade him to appear in Athens, or in any part of the Athenian territory ; yet you are going to crown Demosthenes with a golden crown, who did not bring hi gold from Persia, but received bribes himself, and still possesses them.
Seite 10 - Athenians, what is the reason (think ye) that the public festivals in honour of Minerva and of Bacchus are always celebrated at the appointed time, whether the direction of them falls to the lot of men of eminence, or of persons less distinguished: (festivals which cost more treasure than is usually expended upon a whole navy ; and more numbers and greater preparations, than any one perhaps ever cost) while your expeditions have been all too late, as that to Methone, that to Pegasai, that to Potidaea.
Seite 140 - should endeavour to raise that spirit abroad, which we ourselves are unwilling to assume. It would be absurd to neglect our own interests, and yet pretend a regard to the common cause : or, while we are insensible to present dangers, to think of alarming others with apprehensions of futurity. No : let us provide the forces in the Chersonesus with money, and every thing else that they desire. Let us begin with vigour on our part ; then call upon the other Greeks ; convene, in.

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