 ... prizes to a few, and those the most worthy, and on such conditions as the laws prescribe, you will have many champions in this contest of merit. But if you gratify any man that pleases, or those who can secure the strongest interest, you will be the...  The Classics, Greek & Latin - Side 240redigeret af - 1909Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Demosthenes - 1806 - 398 sider
...the severest preparatory discipline, and to encounter all the dangers of the contest. Imagine, thea, that political merit is a kind of game, which you...this man ? The chiefs who led back the people from Phyle" ? Aristides, surnamed the Just, a title quite different from that of Demosthenes ? — No ;... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1828 - 218 sider
...lustre: but now, it is tarnished and effaced; while your honours are conferred by course and customt not with judgment and distinction. It may possibly...deserted from his post ? Miltiades, who conquered the barharians at Marathon, or this man? The chiefs who led back the people from Phyle ? [I.] Aristides,... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1829 - 214 sider
...were then of real eminence. This is a difficulty which I shall endeavour to obviate. Do you'imagine, Athenians, that any man whatever would engage in the...commanded your fleet, when you defeated the Persian m the sea-fight at Salamis; or this Demosthenes, who deserted from his post? Miltiades, who conquered... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1831 - 302 sider
...grant the prizes to a few, and those the most worthy, and on such conditions as the laws prescijbe, you will have many champions in this contest of merit....this man ? The chiefs who led back the people from Phyle !' Aristides, surnamed the Just, a title quite different from that of Demosthenes 1 — No :... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1832 - 228 sider
...corrupting the very best natural dispositons. That you may conceive the force of what I here- advance, 1 must explain myself still more clearly. — Which,...at Salamis ; or this Demosthenes, who deserted from h;s post? Miltiades, who conquered the barbarians at Marathon, or this man ? The chiefs who led back... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1832 - 216 sider
...secure the strongest interest, you will be the means of corrupting the very best natural dispositons. That you may conceive the force of what I here advance,...clearly. — Which, think ye, was the more worthy citizen : Tnemistocles, who commanded your fleet, when you defeated the Persian in the sea-fight at Salamis;... | |
 | Léon Brédif - 1881 - 522 sider
...virtue. If you gratify the first ambitious comer with it, you will pervert the best applicants.* " That you may conceive the force of what I here advance,...sea-fight at Salamis, or this Demosthenes, who deserted his post? Miltiades, who conquered the barbarians at Marathon, or this man? The chiefs who led back... | |
 | Léon Brédif - 1881 - 530 sider
...virtue. If you gratify the first ambitious comer with it, you will pervert the best applicants.* " That you may conceive the force of what I here advance,...more clearly. Which, think ye, was the more worthy citizen,—Themistocles, who commanded your fleet when you defeated the Persian in the sea-fight at... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 478 sider
...crown. Yet now it is proposed to crown a man whom your laws expressly disqualify ! " Which think you was the more worthy citizen, Themistocles, who commanded your fleet when you vanquished the Persians at Salamis, or Demosthenes, the deserter ? Miltiades, who conquered the barbarians... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1900 - 488 sider
...engage. But now, as the reward of such their victory is rare, hardly to be obtained, truly honorable, and never to be forgotten, there are champions found...this man ? The chiefs who led back the people from Phyle?18 Aristides, surnamed the Just, a title quite different from that of Demosthenes? No ; by the... | |
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