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cared for none of these obligations; he took no thought that the ship of state
should sail on even keel; he scuttled her and sank her, and so far as in him lay
put her at the mercy of her foes. Are not you then a charlatan? Yes, and a vile
one too. Are not you a speech-writer? Yes, and an unprincipled one to boot. You
passed over the speech that you so often spoke on the stage, and knew by heart;
you hunted up rant that in all your career you had never declaimed in character,
and revived it for the undoing of your own fellow-citizen.
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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