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But, it
may be said, in these respects alone things were better then than now, but in
other respects worse. Far from it; but let us examine any instance you please.
The buildings which they left behind them to adorn our city—temples,
harbors, and their accessories—were so great and so fair that we who
come after must despair of ever surpassing them; the Propylaea yonder, the
docks, the porticoes and the rest, with which they beautified the city that they
have bequeathed to us.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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