The world: historical and actual . n of incalculable importance as mod-els of oratory, studied and practised in all civilizedlauds almost ever since they were pronounced. Acoward in battle, he was a true hero in debate, anda wise counselor. The claims and merits of Demos-thenes, as they have come to be estimated by thesettled judgment of mankind, may be stated thus:1. Purity in ethical character; 2. Intellectualmastery of the subject in hand; 3. The magicforce of felicitous language, thanks partly to hisown genius, and partly* to the matchless beauty ofthe Greek tongue; 4. Freedom from all bom
The world: historical and actual . n of incalculable importance as mod-els of oratory, studied and practised in all civilizedlauds almost ever since they were pronounced. Acoward in battle, he was a true hero in debate, anda wise counselor. The claims and merits of Demos-thenes, as they have come to be estimated by thesettled judgment of mankind, may be stated thus:1. Purity in ethical character; 2. Intellectualmastery of the subject in hand; 3. The magicforce of felicitous language, thanks partly to hisown genius, and partly* to the matchless beauty ofthe Greek tongue; 4. Freedom from all bombast,concise, fluent, sweet and impressive. Having taken a hasty glance at Greek literature,we may sum up by giving the list of extant authors,upon whom rests the fame of that literature, andwho will continue to be read and admired in allages: Homer, Pindar, Jischylus, Sophocles, Eurip-ides and Aristophanes; Herodotus, Thucydides,Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, and are the immortal twelve of Greek classic ~^k u£
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