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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEMOSTHENES I. Whether, 0 Sosius,1 the writer of the well-known panegyric upon Alcibiades on the occasion of his victory in the chariot-races at the Olympic Games was Euripides, as the prevalent tradition maintains, or some other person, he at all events assures us that the primary and essential foundation of human happiness is citizenship of an illustrious State. For my own part, I do not consider that, to the man who is destined to win that true happiness which finds its widest sphere in Character and Disposition, his being born in an obscure and humble country makes any more difference than his being born of a dwarfed and deformed mother. It would, indeed, be ridiculous for one to imagine that lulis, a tiny part of that inconsiderable island Ceos,2 and Aegina,3 which some Athenian 4 advised should be removed because it was an eyesore to the Peiraeus, should breed good actors and good poets, but should never be capable of producing a single man of justice and self- sufficiency, of intelligence and magnanimity. Indeed it is probable that, while the Arts, generally speaking, being practised for profit or for glory, should decline in inglorious and humble States, Virtue, like some hardy evergreen plant, should strike its roots into every soil and fasten upon the generous disposition and the industrious mind wherever it should chance to find them. Agreeably to these reflec- 1 Sosius Senecio, a man of consular rank, who nourished in the last decade of the first century A.d. Many of the lives are dedicated to him. 2 The island where the poets Simonides and Bacchylides were born. 3 The birth-place of the actor Polus. 4 Pericles. Vide Life of Pericles, ch. viii. tions, if the tenour of my thought, if the conduct of my life fall rather short of what it ought to be, I sh...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217533171 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217533175 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 202 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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