Advancement of LearningP.F. Collier, 1902 - 431 sider |
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Side 47
... Demosthenes being taunted by Æschines , a man of pleasure , that his speeches smelt of the lamp , very pertly retorted , " There is great difference between the objects which you and I pursue by lamp- light . " as No fear , therefore ...
... Demosthenes being taunted by Æschines , a man of pleasure , that his speeches smelt of the lamp , very pertly retorted , " There is great difference between the objects which you and I pursue by lamp- light . " as No fear , therefore ...
Side 50
... Demosthenes , Cicero , the second Cato , and many others , that seeing the times they read of more pure than their own , pushed their servility too far in the reformation of manners , and to seek to im pose , by austere precepts , the ...
... Demosthenes , Cicero , the second Cato , and many others , that seeing the times they read of more pure than their own , pushed their servility too far in the reformation of manners , and to seek to im pose , by austere precepts , the ...
Side 51
... Demosthenes said well to the Athenians , " My counsels are not such as tend to aggrandize myself and diminish you , but sometimes not expedient for me to give , though always expedient for you to follow . " ' 40 So Seneca , after ...
... Demosthenes said well to the Athenians , " My counsels are not such as tend to aggrandize myself and diminish you , but sometimes not expedient for me to give , though always expedient for you to follow . " ' 40 So Seneca , after ...
Side 55
... Demosthenes ; then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous ; and the whole bent of those times was rather upon fulness than weight . 51 Neither a Portuguese nor a bishop , but a Spanish monk , born at ...
... Demosthenes ; then grew the learning of the schoolmen to be utterly despised as barbarous ; and the whole bent of those times was rather upon fulness than weight . 51 Neither a Portuguese nor a bishop , but a Spanish monk , born at ...
Side 108
... Demosthenes , " that a good name is the proper inheritance of the de- ceased ' ; which inheritance is lying waste in our time , and deserves to be noticed as a deficiency . In the business of relations it is , also , to be wished that ...
... Demosthenes , " that a good name is the proper inheritance of the de- ceased ' ; which inheritance is lying waste in our time , and deserves to be noticed as a deficiency . In the business of relations it is , also , to be wished that ...
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