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... ORATORY AND THE RISE OF ATTIC PROSE COMPOSITION - GORGIAS , ANTIPHON • 53 72 V. THUCYDIDES - ANDOCIDES , CRITIAS 98 VI . ATTIC LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION - LYSIAS AND ISÆUS 134 VII . PLATO 160 VIII . ISOCRATES 211 IX . THE LESSER ...
... ORATORY AND THE RISE OF ATTIC PROSE COMPOSITION - GORGIAS , ANTIPHON • 53 72 V. THUCYDIDES - ANDOCIDES , CRITIAS 98 VI . ATTIC LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION - LYSIAS AND ISÆUS 134 VII . PLATO 160 VIII . ISOCRATES 211 IX . THE LESSER ...
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... oratory and political his- tory . It is indeed not unlikely that Stesimbrotus formed a sort of connecting link , and that under the pretence of writing memoirs he composed a bitter political pamphlet against the liberal policy of the ...
... oratory and political his- tory . It is indeed not unlikely that Stesimbrotus formed a sort of connecting link , and that under the pretence of writing memoirs he composed a bitter political pamphlet against the liberal policy of the ...
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... orator , on some- what similar evidence . But if the Sicilian rhetor , who only visited Athens in old age , was able to compose in Attic , Zeno , who came there in middle age , may have also done so , though he was not a professional orator ...
... orator , on some- what similar evidence . But if the Sicilian rhetor , who only visited Athens in old age , was able to compose in Attic , Zeno , who came there in middle age , may have also done so , though he was not a professional orator ...
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... oratory , and of physical science , until men had cleared up all their first principles by ample dis- cussion , he encouraged a strong and very mischievous tendency among all social people — that of wasting their time in conver- sation ...
... oratory , and of physical science , until men had cleared up all their first principles by ample dis- cussion , he encouraged a strong and very mischievous tendency among all social people — that of wasting their time in conver- sation ...
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... deepest thoughts of their deepest thinkers - Heracleitus , Democritus , Anaxagoras - could stay the current which set in a new direc tion . CHAPTER IV . THE BEGINNINGS OF ORATORY AND THE RISE CH . III . 71 DECAY OF IONIC PROSE .
... deepest thoughts of their deepest thinkers - Heracleitus , Democritus , Anaxagoras - could stay the current which set in a new direc tion . CHAPTER IV . THE BEGINNINGS OF ORATORY AND THE RISE CH . III . 71 DECAY OF IONIC PROSE .
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Page 340 - ... of Demosthenes. He concludes that the onus frobandi lies on the sceptics, and makes out a very reasonable case. Without venturing to decide the question, in which, however, I sympathise with Blass, I will only point out how signally German critics have their sesthetical judgments controlled by their critical conclusions, and in consequence how utterly unsafe they are as to questions of style. Westermann, having made up his mind that the letters were spurious, discovers that he is guided by their...
Page 272 - The shorter eighth chapter wouUl then be an excerpt, put together and added to the Memoirs when the Apologia came to be read and copied out separately. As a defence, though neatly and even elegantly written in the unmistakable vein of Socratic questioning, it is very inferior to Plato's Apologia.
Page 115 - eristic ' or ' antilogic ' method of discussion came in with the schools of philosophy in the time of Pericles, and the practice of it was maintained till quite lately in the ' keeping an act ' in the theological schools of the Universities.
Page 388 - Rome ; they represent a refined and careworn, but somewhat hard face, in which thought and perhaps bodily suffering have drawn deep furrows. His policy was Macedonian and anti-Demosthenic, and for this reason he was assailed by many sham patriots.
Page 112 - We find in his description of battles generally, and of this battle beyond all others, a depth and abundance of human emotion which has now passed out of military proceedings. The Greeks who fight, like the Greeks who look on, are not soldiers withdrawn from the community, and specialized...
Page 23 - WORK. 23 can be far better appreciated by a perusal of any twenty chapters. The plan is distinctly stated at the opening. It is to narrate the great conflict of Greeks and barbarians ; so that the glorious deeds of both may not perish, and that their true causes may be known. Herodotus thus chooses no petty quarrel between neighbouring Greek cities, no dispute of transitory moment, but the great shock of East and West, of liberty and despotism, which has lasted in many Protean phases up to the present...