 | Demosthenes - 1857 - 432 pages
...purpose like yourself. You say that I am nothing like the ancients. Are you like them, jEschines ? Is your brother, or any of our speakers? I assert...was a matter of emulation, I showed myself a better counselor than any, and every act of state was pursuant to my decrees and laws 1 An anecdote of this... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1865 - 418 pages
...who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror.1 So I ask you to compare aie with the orators of the day, with yourself, with any one you like : I yiekLto none. When the commonwealth was at liberty to choose for her advantage, and patriotism was... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1884 - 434 pages
...Olympia, but, because he beat all who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror.1 So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the...was a matter of emulation, I showed myself a better counselor than any, and every act of state was pursuant to my decrees and laws 1 An anecdote of this... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 560 pages
...Olympia, but, because he beat all who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror. So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the...was a matter of emulation, I showed myself a better counselor than any, and every act of state was pursuant to my decrees and laws and negotiations : none... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...Olympia, but, because he beat all who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror. So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the...was a matter of emulation, I showed myself a better counselor than any, and every act of state was pursuant to my decrees and laws and negotiations : none... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 438 pages
...Olympia, but, because he beat all who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror. So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the...was a matter of emulation, I showed myself a better counselor than any, and every act of state was pursuant to my decrees and laws and negotiations : none... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 464 pages
...Olympia, but, because he beat all who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror. So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the day, with yourself, with anyone you like: I yield to none. When the commonwealth was at liberty to choose for her advantage,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 456 pages
...Olympia, but, because he beat all who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror. So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the...every act of state was pursuant to my decrees and laws and negotiations: none of your party was to be seen, unless you had to do the Athenians a mischief.... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 456 pages
...Olympia, but, because he beat all who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror. So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the...counsellor than any, and every act of state was pursuant to iny decrees and laws and negotiations: none of your party was to be seen, unless you had to. do the... | |
 | Demosthenes - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - 1900 - 522 pages
...but, because he beat all who entered the ring against him, was crowned and proclaimed conqueror.165 So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the day, with yourself, with any one yo)irf*iiS«., I yield to none. When the commonwealth was aft liberty to choose for her advantage,... | |
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So I ask you to compare me with the orators of the day, with yourself, with any one you like: I yield to none. When the commonwealth was at liberty to choose for her advantage, and patriotism was a matter of emulation, I showed myself a better counsellor... 
