A History of Classical Greek Literature, Volume 2Harper and Brothers, 1880 - Greek literature |
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... speeches , which are a common feature of all the classical historians , are by no means so signal a blemish to his work as are the rhetorical harangues in later literature ; for his speeches are well contrasted with those in Thucydides ...
... speeches , which are a common feature of all the classical historians , are by no means so signal a blemish to his work as are the rhetorical harangues in later literature ; for his speeches are well contrasted with those in Thucydides ...
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... speeches and his rhetorical writings . But the introduction of democracy at Syracuse in 466 B.C. , and at Agrigentum a few years later , gave a great impetus to the study of oratory ; and so it comes that while Aristotle , speaking ...
... speeches and his rhetorical writings . But the introduction of democracy at Syracuse in 466 B.C. , and at Agrigentum a few years later , gave a great impetus to the study of oratory ; and so it comes that while Aristotle , speaking ...
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... speeches for pay , to meet this public outburst of litigation . But the special point about him and his successor Tisias , was their avoidance of the trade of sophist , and their strict adherence to the practical profession of rhetor ...
... speeches for pay , to meet this public outburst of litigation . But the special point about him and his successor Tisias , was their avoidance of the trade of sophist , and their strict adherence to the practical profession of rhetor ...
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... speeches , and that the wonderful effects produced were not by a violent or impassioned manner , but by the weight of his character , the dignity and calmness of his de- meanour , and the solid and convincing nature of his argu- ments ...
... speeches , and that the wonderful effects produced were not by a violent or impassioned manner , but by the weight of his character , the dignity and calmness of his de- meanour , and the solid and convincing nature of his argu- ments ...
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... speeches are now printed in the Teubner Antiphon ( ed . Blass ) , but he has unfortunately not added the fragments , which must be sought in Mullach's Fragmenta Philosophorum , vol . ii . The MSS . are very numerous for the Helen , and ...
... speeches are now printed in the Teubner Antiphon ( ed . Blass ) , but he has unfortunately not added the fragments , which must be sought in Mullach's Fragmenta Philosophorum , vol . ii . The MSS . are very numerous for the Helen , and ...
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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...