A Review of the Governments of Sparta and AthensW. Bulmer and Company, 1794 - 282 pages |
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... orators thronged the Forum , and no demagogues were known , where no gold encouraged faction : no contending sects of sophists and rhetoricians proclaimed their tenets through the crowded streets . The refinements of philosophy were un ...
... orators thronged the Forum , and no demagogues were known , where no gold encouraged faction : no contending sects of sophists and rhetoricians proclaimed their tenets through the crowded streets . The refinements of philosophy were un ...
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... orator . The court of Areopagus was held in an ancient edifice , which was built upon a hill opposite to the citadel 4. History does not inform us , why a rock consecrated to the god of war " , should have been chosen for the peaceful ...
... orator . The court of Areopagus was held in an ancient edifice , which was built upon a hill opposite to the citadel 4. History does not inform us , why a rock consecrated to the god of war " , should have been chosen for the peaceful ...
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... orators , both as ac- curate and able judges " . Their finer or- gans could not have endured the harsh mo- notony of modern declamation ; and their public speakers appear to have been pecu- This liarly attentive in their compositions ...
... orators , both as ac- curate and able judges " . Their finer or- gans could not have endured the harsh mo- notony of modern declamation ; and their public speakers appear to have been pecu- This liarly attentive in their compositions ...
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... people to their own prero- gatives , will be ever kept awake by those orators who govern by them ; and that if any danger should threaten the constitution , 12 it will probably arise from their own cor- ruption GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS . 127.
... people to their own prero- gatives , will be ever kept awake by those orators who govern by them ; and that if any danger should threaten the constitution , 12 it will probably arise from their own cor- ruption GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS . 127.
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... orators , saw not the decay of their ancient freedom . Athens , during her brightest days , was ruled by the influ- ence of faction , and the republican virtues of Cimon , and of Aristides , were suffered to K 2 GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS ...
... orators , saw not the decay of their ancient freedom . Athens , during her brightest days , was ruled by the influ- ence of faction , and the republican virtues of Cimon , and of Aristides , were suffered to K 2 GOVERNMENT OF ATHENS ...
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