The Orations of Demosthenes...: Against Timocrates, Aristogiton, Aphobus, Onetor, Zenothemis, Apaturius, Phormio, Lacritus, Pantaenetus, Nausimachus, Boeotus, Spudias, Phaenippus, and for PhormioGeorge Bell & sons, 1886 |
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... perhaps why a person who has lived quietly all the rest of his life ( as I believe I have done ) is now found engaged in trials and public prosecutions . I am anxious therefore to give you a short explanation , and it will not be ...
... perhaps why a person who has lived quietly all the rest of his life ( as I believe I have done ) is now found engaged in trials and public prosecutions . I am anxious therefore to give you a short explanation , and it will not be ...
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... perhaps , if I touched upon them all , I should be pushed out of the argument , that this law is altogether injurious to the state ; and you will equally consider it indictable , if it be repugnant to only one of the existing laws ...
... perhaps , if I touched upon them all , I should be pushed out of the argument , that this law is altogether injurious to the state ; and you will equally consider it indictable , if it be repugnant to only one of the existing laws ...
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... perhaps we are to do these things without pay . Would it not be monstrous that , through a law which you have been paid to propose , the assembly and the council and the courts should be unpaid ? Surely , Timocrates , you ought to have ...
... perhaps we are to do these things without pay . Would it not be monstrous that , through a law which you have been paid to propose , the assembly and the council and the courts should be unpaid ? Surely , Timocrates , you ought to have ...
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Demosthenes. without being discharged . But for the practices of his youth perhaps . Why , for these he deserves a prison quite as much as for his thefts . Or because he entered the market - place when he had no right , and took ...
Demosthenes. without being discharged . But for the practices of his youth perhaps . Why , for these he deserves a prison quite as much as for his thefts . Or because he entered the market - place when he had no right , and took ...
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... perhaps an unpleasant thing to mention any of them by name , yet it is necessary to compare them with these men . I will pass by those before the archonship of Euclides , and the very ancient cases . All these persons however , at the ...
... perhaps an unpleasant thing to mention any of them by name , yet it is necessary to compare them with these men . I will pass by those before the archonship of Euclides , and the very ancient cases . All these persons however , at the ...
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accused action agreement Androtion Apaturius Aphobus Apollodorus arbitrator Archon argument Aristocles Aristogiton Athenian Athens bail Böckh Bootus Bosporus bottomry brother brought cargo cause charge Chrysippus claim clause Coan wine commenced court debt debtor defendant defendant's Demophon Demosthenes depositions dispute drachms eighty minas Euctemon Euergus evidence facts false father favour gave give given guardians imprisonment impudent Isocrates judgment jury justice Lacritus Lampis Laurium lent Lycurgus Mantitheus marriage marriage portion ment Milyas Mnesicles mortgaged mother never oath Onetor orator Pabst paid Pantænetus Parmeno party payment penalty persons Phænippus Phormio plaint plaintiff Polyeuctus Pontus possession present prison proceedings proof Protus prove punishment question received Reiske release Schäfer ship slaves special plea speech Spudias statute suppose talents testimony Therippides things thirty minas thousand drachms Timocrates torture trial trierarchs truth verdict voyage witnesses wrong Zenothemis
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Page 61 - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy...
Page 350 - ... arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises and ship, &c., or any part thereof.
Page 409 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes
Page 61 - In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead. force should be right ; or, rather, right and wrong, (Between whose endless jar justice resides,) Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 398 - Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Page 324 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Page 350 - NB — Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed are warranted free from average, unless general, or the ship be stranded — sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent., and all other goods, also the ship and freight, are warranted free from average, under three pounds per cent, unless general, or the ship be stranded.
Page 350 - Ship, &c., or any Part thereof, without Prejudice to this Insurance ; to the Charges whereof we, the Assurers, will contribute, each one according to the Rate and Quantity of his sum herein assured.
Page 409 - Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages ; his who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next...
Page 394 - Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.