The works of Demosthenes, tr., with notes by C.R. Kennedy, 4. köide1861 |
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... living on you and pillaging you to an enormous extent , may escape refunding even what they are clearly proved to have stolen . And so much easier is it to pay court to certain private individuals , than to stand up for your rights ...
... living on you and pillaging you to an enormous extent , may escape refunding even what they are clearly proved to have stolen . And so much easier is it to pay court to certain private individuals , than to stand up for your rights ...
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... living under a free government ? Shall the courts civil and criminal not sit ? And what security will there be for people who suffer wrong ? Shall the council not attend to transact their constitutional business ? And what remains for ...
... living under a free government ? Shall the courts civil and criminal not sit ? And what security will there be for people who suffer wrong ? Shall the council not attend to transact their constitutional business ? And what remains for ...
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... living and the unborn . The other shows to people who have done evil a way to escape punishment , procures a license for knavery as well for the unborn as for the living , gives in- demnity and security to the bad of every age . What ...
... living and the unborn . The other shows to people who have done evil a way to escape punishment , procures a license for knavery as well for the unborn as for the living , gives in- demnity and security to the bad of every age . What ...
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... living would in no way differ from that of wild beasts . For example , what do you think the defendant himself would do if the laws wer abolished , he who thus behaves himself while they are in force ? Since then it is acknowledged that ...
... living would in no way differ from that of wild beasts . For example , what do you think the defendant himself would do if the laws wer abolished , he who thus behaves himself while they are in force ? Since then it is acknowledged that ...
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... living in happiness and honour ? And what will he do to live ? For the misfortunes of others support him . He there- fore wishes all people to be involved in litigation and trials and foul charges . This is his husbandry , this his ...
... living in happiness and honour ? And what will he do to live ? For the misfortunes of others support him . He there- fore wishes all people to be involved in litigation and trials and foul charges . This is his husbandry , this his ...
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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 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 350 - Part thereof; and in case of any Loss or Misfortune, it shall be lawful to the Assured, their Factors, Servants, and Assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in and about the Defence, Safeguard and Recovery of the said Goods and Merchandises and 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 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 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 ancients, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Page 350 - 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.
Page 398 - Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
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...