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Why, if my calumniator had been Aeacus, or
Rhadamanthus, or Minos, instead of a mere scandalmonger, a market-place loafer,
a poor devil of a clerk, he could hardly have used such language, or equipped
himself with such offensive expressions. Hark to his melodramatic bombast:
“Oh, Earth! Oh, Sun! Oh, Virtue,” and all that vaporing; his
appeals to “intelligence and education, whereby we discriminate
between things of good and evil report”—for that was the
sort of rubbish you heard him spouting.
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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