Sketches of public characters, discourses and essays Volume 2; To which is added a dissertation on the eloquence of the ancients - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...language, of the manner in which that title had been prostituted.§ The ultimate judgment pronounced as it were by the orator upon his own compositions, and recorded in the changes which he made when repeating the same passage, has been already adverted to in general terms. Oral. Groec. edit. Reisk. vol. i. p. 687. t Ibid. vol. i. p. 173., i It might have been supposed that, in the Oration against Aristocrates, Ttoxjtsi had, by an error, crept into the MSS. instead of aTixua; but, beside that the expression WavM rijuu applied to the reward the first time it is mentioned, would not be justly descriptive of the merely pecuniary exemption in which the urtxuct consisted; the second instance, that of Pcrdiccas, is immediately followed by the reason, namely, that the To yetio-$i aWTt ifth was always held a sufficient honour to call forth any services. § Edinburgh Review, vol. xxxvi pp 97, 98. It is not perhaps very surprising that we sometimes find this judgment at variance with that of the Jess refined and severe taste of modern critics. Thus, the Second Olynthiac contains a very well known and most justly admired description of the slippery foundation upon which ill-gotten power rests. If a translation of this be here attempted, it is certainly under a deep conviction how impracticable any approach, in our language, must be to the great original. "When a confederacy rests upon union of sentiments, and all have one common interest in the war, men take a delight in sharing the same toils, in bearing the same burdens, and in persevering together to the end. But when, by aggression and intrigue, one party, like this Prince, has waxed powerful over the rest, the first /pretext, the slightest reverse, shakes off the yoke, and /it is gone! For it is not,...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...language, of the manner in which that title had been prostituted.§ The ultimate judgment pronounced as it were by the orator upon his own compositions, and recorded in the changes which he made when repeating the same passage, has been already adverted to in general terms. Oral. Groec. edit. Reisk. vol. i. p. 687. t Ibid. vol. i. p. 173., i It might have been supposed that, in the Oration against Aristocrates, Ttoxjtsi had, by an error, crept into the MSS. instead of aTixua; but, beside that the expression WavM rijuu applied to the reward the first time it is mentioned, would not be justly descriptive of the merely pecuniary exemption in which the urtxuct consisted; the second instance, that of Pcrdiccas, is immediately followed by the reason, namely, that the To yetio-$i aWTt ifth was always held a sufficient honour to call forth any services. § Edinburgh Review, vol. xxxvi pp 97, 98. It is not perhaps very surprising that we sometimes find this judgment at variance with that of the Jess refined and severe taste of modern critics. Thus, the Second Olynthiac contains a very well known and most justly admired description of the slippery foundation upon which ill-gotten power rests. If a translation of this be here attempted, it is certainly under a deep conviction how impracticable any approach, in our language, must be to the great original. "When a confederacy rests upon union of sentiments, and all have one common interest in the war, men take a delight in sharing the same toils, in bearing the same burdens, and in persevering together to the end. But when, by aggression and intrigue, one party, like this Prince, has waxed powerful over the rest, the first /pretext, the slightest reverse, shakes off the yoke, and /it is gone! For it is not,...
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