The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, 8. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
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... whole proceedings with the fiercest hatred of me , and , without even meeting me fairly , endeavors to rob another of his good name . It is easy , then , to see that all the charges against me are as little founded in justice and in ...
... whole proceedings with the fiercest hatred of me , and , without even meeting me fairly , endeavors to rob another of his good name . It is easy , then , to see that all the charges against me are as little founded in justice and in ...
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... gave the finish- ing stroke to all the rest - one on which he bestowed a great part of his speech , dwelling upon the decrees of the Locrian Amphissians , to pervert the whole truth . But it will not do . How should it ? DEMOSTHENES.
... gave the finish- ing stroke to all the rest - one on which he bestowed a great part of his speech , dwelling upon the decrees of the Locrian Amphissians , to pervert the whole truth . But it will not do . How should it ? DEMOSTHENES.
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... body is stricken by disease . DEMOSTHENES AND THE PEOPLE . Eschines - impeaching my whole conduct , and bid- ding you hold me cheap , as the cause of the country's alarms and perils , would fain strip me of the DEMOSTHENES.
... body is stricken by disease . DEMOSTHENES AND THE PEOPLE . Eschines - impeaching my whole conduct , and bid- ding you hold me cheap , as the cause of the country's alarms and perils , would fain strip me of the DEMOSTHENES.
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... whole affairs , and brought them to ruin - wherein has Demosthenes been to blame ? But if there had been found in any Greek state one man such as I have been in my sphere among you rather - if Thessaly had only possessed a single man ...
... whole affairs , and brought them to ruin - wherein has Demosthenes been to blame ? But if there had been found in any Greek state one man such as I have been in my sphere among you rather - if Thessaly had only possessed a single man ...
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... whole land , a summons to battle . " A house divided against itself , " he said , " cannot stand . I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half - slave and half - free . I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not ...
... whole land , a summons to battle . " A house divided against itself , " he said , " cannot stand . I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half - slave and half - free . I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not ...
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