Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: essays, moral, political and literary, Band 1Bell & Bradfute, 1825 - 544 Seiten |
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... Athenians , though governed by a republic , paid near two hundred per cent . for those sums of money , which any emergence made it necessary for them to borrow ; as we learn from Xeno- phon . Among the moderns , the Dutch first ...
... Athenians , though governed by a republic , paid near two hundred per cent . for those sums of money , which any emergence made it necessary for them to borrow ; as we learn from Xeno- phon . Among the moderns , the Dutch first ...
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... Athenians , the Areopagites expressly forbade all allurements of eloquence ; and some have pretended , that in the Greek orations , writ- ten in the judiciary form , there is not so bold and rheto- rical a style as appears in the Roman ...
... Athenians , the Areopagites expressly forbade all allurements of eloquence ; and some have pretended , that in the Greek orations , writ- ten in the judiciary form , there is not so bold and rheto- rical a style as appears in the Roman ...
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... more than affected the passions , and never raised its tone above argument or common discourse . Such was the eloquence of Lysias among the Athenians , and of Calvus among the Romans . These were esteemed OF ELOQUENCE . 101.
... more than affected the passions , and never raised its tone above argument or common discourse . Such was the eloquence of Lysias among the Athenians , and of Calvus among the Romans . These were esteemed OF ELOQUENCE . 101.
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... Athenians , who composed and wrote his speeches , was Pericles , a man of business and a man of sense , if ever there was one , Πρωτος γραπτον λογον εν δικασηρίω ειπε , των προ αυτω σχεδιάζονταν . Suidas in Περικλές . ESSAY XIV . OF THE ...
... Athenians , who composed and wrote his speeches , was Pericles , a man of business and a man of sense , if ever there was one , Πρωτος γραπτον λογον εν δικασηρίω ειπε , των προ αυτω σχεδιάζονταν . Suidas in Περικλές . ESSAY XIV . OF THE ...
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... Athenians were as remarkable for ingenuity , politeness , and gaiety , as the Thebans for dulness , rusticity , and a phlegmatic temper . Plutarch , discoursing of the effects of air on the minds of men , observes , that the inhabitants ...
... Athenians were as remarkable for ingenuity , politeness , and gaiety , as the Thebans for dulness , rusticity , and a phlegmatic temper . Plutarch , discoursing of the effects of air on the minds of men , observes , that the inhabitants ...
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