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To crown
all—as though all his own speeches had been made in a disinterested
and patriotic spirit—he bids you be on your guard against me, for fear
I should mislead and deceive you, calling me an artful speaker, a mountebank, an
impostor, and so forth. He seems to think that if a man can only get in the
first blow with epithets that are really applicable to himself, they must be
true, and the audience will make no reflections on the character of the speaker.
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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