Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . When he came to the Olympian games, Plato resided in afamily who were totally strangers to him. He told them his name was Plato,yet he never spoke of the employment he pursued at Athens ; and when hereturned home, attended by the family which had so kindly entertained him,he was desired to show them the great philosopher whose name he
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . When he came to the Olympian games, Plato resided in afamily who were totally strangers to him. He told them his name was Plato,yet he never spoke of the employment he pursued at Athens ; and when hereturned home, attended by the family which had so kindly entertained him,he was desired to show them the great philosopher whose name he bore: theirsurprise was great when he told them that he himself was the Plato whomthey wished to behold. In his diet he was moderate, and indeed, to sobrietyand temperance in the use of food, and to the want of those pleasures whichenfeeble the body and enervate the mind, some have attributed his preservationduring the tremendous pestilence which raged at Athens with so much fury atthe beginning of the Peloponnesian war. Plato died on his birthday, in theeighty-first year of his age, B. C. 384. He expired according to Cicero, ashe \\ as wriiing. The works of Plato are numerous; they are all written inthe form of a dialogue, except twelve letters. Plato from an antique Boat, 30 DEMOSTHENES. DEMOSTHENES. DEMOSTHENES, the greatest orator of antiquity, was the son of an optilenford-blade manufacturer at Athens, and was born about 282 B. C. He wasbut seven years of age when his father died. His guardians negligently man*aged his affairs, and embezzled the greatest part of his possessions. Hiseducation was totally neglected ; and for whatever advances he made in learn*ing, he was indebted to his industry and application. He became the-pupil ofIsaeus and Plato, and applied himself to study the orations of Isocrates. Attl±e age of seventeen he gave an early proof of his eloquence and abilitiesagainst his guardians, from whom he obtained the retribution of the greatestpart of
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