The Orations of Demosthenes: Pronounced to Excite the Athenians Against Philip, King of Macedon, and on Occasions of Public Deliberation

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Jones, 1829 - 189 стор.

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Сторінка 69 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Сторінка 187 - To exert himself in the assembly for this purpose? while with equal zeal he labored to gain others to our interest and alliance — as Byzantium, Abydus, and Euboea? Was he not to cut off the best and most important resources of our enemies, and to supply those in which our country was defective?
Сторінка 3 - States now subjected to him were free and independent, and more inclined to our alliance than to his. Had then Philip reasoned in the same manner...
Сторінка 187 - Was he not to secure Eubcea, as our defence against all attacks by sea ? Was he not to make Beotia our barrier on the midland side ? The cities bordering on Peloponnesus our bulwark on that quarter...
Сторінка 177 - ... existence hath been spent in braving dangers, for the sake of glory and renown. And so highly do you esteem such conduct...
Сторінка 177 - No; it is my point to show that such sentiments are properly your own ; that they were the sentiments of my country long before my days. I claim but my share of merit in having acted on such principles in every part of my administration. He, then, who condemns every part of my administration ; he who directs you to treat me with severity, as one who hath involved the state in terrors and dangers, while he labors to deprive me of present honor, robs you of the applause of all posterity.
Сторінка 11 - But I cannot be persuaded that he hath so taken his measures, that the weakest among us (for the weakest they are who spread such rumours) know what he is next to do.
Сторінка 177 - ... 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. But if that State which once claimed the first rank in Greece had resigned this rank in time of danger, she had incurred the censure of betraying the whole nation to the enemy. If we had indeed given up those points without one blow, for which our fathers encountered every peril, who would not have spurned you with scorn? — you the author of such...
Сторінка 177 - ... (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.
Сторінка 183 - Van-bearer ! these were his felicitations from the old women : and his wages were tart, biscuit, and new-baked crusts. In such circumstances, •surely we must congratulate him on his fortune. WHEN you had obtained your enrolment among our citizens, by what means I shall not mention, but, when you had obtained it, you instantly chose out the most honourable of employments, that of under-scrivener and assistant to the lowest of our public officers.

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