The works of Demosthenes, tr., with notes by C.R. Kennedy, 4. köide1861 |
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... Wife 313 IV . Onetor's Case 322 V. Shipping Contracts 328 VI . Character of Athenian Tribunals . 351 VII . Interrogatories 377 VIII . Torture 382 IX . Oaths 392 X. The Empire of Athens 399 THE ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENES . THE ORATION ...
... Wife 313 IV . Onetor's Case 322 V. Shipping Contracts 328 VI . Character of Athenian Tribunals . 351 VII . Interrogatories 377 VIII . Torture 382 IX . Oaths 392 X. The Empire of Athens 399 THE ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENES . THE ORATION ...
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... wives and children , and of everything else that he got ? —who , after you had elected him your ambassador , abstracted from the Goddess here the tithe of the spoil taken from your enemies ? —who , since that , when he was treasurer in ...
... wives and children , and of everything else that he got ? —who , after you had elected him your ambassador , abstracted from the Goddess here the tithe of the spoil taken from your enemies ? —who , since that , when he was treasurer in ...
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... wives and children ? For the defendant's mischievous activity has reached , verily it has reached all ; and all would rejoice to be delivered from his wickedness , and to see punishment inflicted upon him . THE ORATION AGAINST ...
... wives and children ? For the defendant's mischievous activity has reached , verily it has reached all ; and all would rejoice to be delivered from his wickedness , and to see punishment inflicted upon him . THE ORATION AGAINST ...
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... wife , as the will directed ? This he has never done ; for though he took her fortune , the eighty minas , with the apparent intention of living with her , he afterwards married the daughter of Philonidas of Melita . But had there been ...
... wife , as the will directed ? This he has never done ; for though he took her fortune , the eighty minas , with the apparent intention of living with her , he afterwards married the daughter of Philonidas of Melita . But had there been ...
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... wife or children . How unlike these guardians to you ! They have had legacies from us to make them faithful in their trust , and yet they have committed this outrage upon us . They are not ashamed of their ruthless behaviour to my ...
... wife or children . How unlike these guardians to you ! They have had legacies from us to make them faithful in their trust , and yet they have committed this outrage upon us . They are not ashamed of their ruthless behaviour to my ...
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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...