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Demosthenes
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  • Think what Pericles did in Athens, and Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • On hearing that John Quincy's course of studies did not include Cicero and Demosthenes, Adams could hardly contain his indignation.†   (source)
  • This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.†   (source)
  • It was like getting hugged, or knowing that at the Friday speakings she would be out there in the schoolyard with Mama, sitting on a sawmill puncheon and perking up when it was Mary Toy's turn to quote from "Lord Ullin's Daughter" or my turn to give an oration from Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes —— PROLOGUE.†   (source)
  • Perhaps some latent Demosthenes was sitting before me awaiting the coming of some twentieth-century Macedonia.†   (source)
  • But Valentine didn't like some of the positions Peter made Demosthenes take.†   (source)
  • I'm going to say snide things about Demosthenes in my first column.†   (source)
  • For instance, I know who Demosthenes really is.†   (source)
  • Locke and Demosthenes "I DIDN'T CALL you in here to waste time.†   (source)
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  • With Demosthenes agitating for him to come home?†   (source)
  • I know Demosthenes seems dangerous, in part because he.†   (source)
  • I'm Demosthenes, Ender, I went out with a bang.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes began to develop as a fairly paranoid antiWarsaw writer.†   (source)
  • They had been doing it only seven months when one of the west coast nets sent Demosthenes a message.†   (source)
  • Valentine couldn't decide whether it was Demosthenes they approved of, or Valentine Wiggin.†   (source)
  • It makes Demosthenes into a respectable person, and.†   (source)
  • What I can't figure out is why they wanted Demosthenes before Locke.†   (source)
  • Well, Demosthenes isn't even going to notice that Locke exists.†   (source)
  • Someone had recently published a savage commentary on the Demosthenes' collected writings.†   (source)
  • We're only telling them that Demosthenes is going with the colony.†   (source)
  • That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws.†   (source)
  • But Demosthenes has nothing to fear from us.†   (source)
  • it was the fact that Father actually agreed with Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • No one cares now that Demosthenes is sending the seventh volume of his history today.†   (source)
  • She couldn't go off and use Demosthenes for her own purposes.†   (source)
  • You're telling everyone that you're Demosthenes? A fourteen-year-old girl?†   (source)
  • And she had been Demosthenes long enough that she didn't hesitate to do her duty.†   (source)
  • Her main identity on the nets was Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • She also stopped being frightened of the idea of becoming, to a degree, Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third."†   (source)
  • In spite of all her misgivings, Valentine was having fun being Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • Peter, it isn't you and me, it's Demosthenes and Locke.†   (source)
  • There were a lot of us who thought Demosthenes would be Hegemon someday.†   (source)
  • And the character of Demosthenes gradually took on a life of his own.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes wasn't wrong to suspect that the Warsaw Pact was not abiding by the terms of the League.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes explained it to someone else.†   (source)
  • Just as I trust Demosthenes not to tell Locke what's going on here today.†   (source)
  • Pericles, yes, but Demosthenes was right about Philip.†   (source)
  • There's always the chance that Demosthenes is right.†   (source)
  • That Demosthenes and Locke aren't as much under our control as the Wiggin.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes can trust our discretion.†   (source)
  • Father was reading Demosthenes regularly; he never read Locke, or if he did, he said nothing about it.†   (source)
  • At dinner, though, he would often regale them with some telling point Demosthenes had made in that day's column.†   (source)
  • Valentine was afraid, that enough powerful people had been annoyed by the vicious persona of Demosthenes that she would indeed be tracked down.†   (source)
  • Without meaning to, Valentine started talking in Demosthenes' voice, even though she certainly wasn't speaking Demosthenes' opinions.†   (source)
  • People will be shocked that Demosthenes and Locke are two kids, but they'll already be used to listening to us.†   (source)
  • He proposed it through his friends from the public policy nets, and then Demosthenes got behind it, too.†   (source)
  • As a result, she had to work hard to talk the principal out of having her essay published on the very newsnet that carried Demosthenes' column.†   (source)
  • No, even Demosthenes' mob of political cretins couldn't persuade the Hegemon to bring Ender back to Earth.†   (source)
  • Someone explained that to Demosthenes?†   (source)
  • At times she found herself thinking like Demosthenes at the end of a writing session, agreeing with ideas that were supposed to be calculated poses.†   (source)
  • She had been Demosthenes too long now to need anyone to tell her what Demosthenes would think about things.†   (source)
  • We'd better have Demosthenes around.†   (source)
  • He probably assumed that this would make the quality of Demosthenes' columns deteriorate, but if it did no one noticed.†   (source)
  • He doesn't think that you're really Demosthenes, and Demosthenes isn't saying things you really believe.†   (source)
  • Besides, this appointment doesn't mean they like Demosthenes better than Locke, it just means that Demosthenes has a much stronger base of support.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes isn't on the nets anymore.†   (source)
  • By having her write Demosthenes, it meant he also had some empathy, just as Locke also could play on others fears.†   (source)
  • You write too much like Demosthenes, you can't get published, I should kill Demosthenes now, you're getting out of control.†   (source)
  • What worried her most was the comment of an Englishman: "Whether he likes it or not, Demosthenes cannot remain incognito forever.†   (source)
  • It was the moment he had been waiting for, to use Demosthenes' influence with the mob and Locke's influence with the intelligentsia to accomplish something noteworthy.†   (source)
  • It happened when Demosthenes was invited to take part in the President's Council on Education for the Future, a blue-ribbon panel that was designed to do nothing, but do it splendidly.†   (source)
  • At school, she once nearly got them in trouble, when her history teacher assigned the class to write a paper contrasting the views of Demosthenes and Locke as expressed in two of their early columns.†   (source)
  • "Turn it down," he said, "Why should I?" she asked, "It's no work at all, and they even said that because of Demosthenes' well-known desire for privacy, they would net all the meetings.†   (source)
  • A few days later Locke got picked up for a column in a New England newsnet, specifically to provide a contrasting view for their popular column from Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • The fun fetters, from national and international leaders, sometimes hostile, sometimes friendly, always diplomatically trying to pry into Demosthenes' mind.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes is definitely the girl, but Graff says the girl was rejected for Battle School because she was too pacific, too conciliatory, and above all, too empathic.†   (source)
  • All this time we've been worried, all the time we've been trying to persuade the Russians not to take Demosthenes too seriously, we held up Locke as proof that Americans weren't all crazy warmongers.†   (source)
  • The commentary, and therefore her work, had been discussed on the open conference of the international relations net, with some of the most important people of the day attacking and defending Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • You know who Demosthenes is.†   (source)
  • By the end of it, Val had finished the first volume of her history of the bugger wars and transmitted it by ansible, under Demosthenes' name, back to Earth, and Ender had won something better than the adulation of the passengers.†   (source)
  • Definitely not Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • Make no report at this time except that we have determined that Locke and Demosthenes have no foreign connections and have no connections with any domestic group, either, except those publicly declared on the nets.†   (source)
  • Every now and then she and Peter would, in Demosthenes' name, donate a carefully calculated sum to a particular candidate or cause: enough money that the donation would be noticed, but not so much that the candidate would feel she was trying to buy a vote.†   (source)
  • Which one is Demosthenes?†   (source)
  • Demosthenes retired.†   (source)
  • I like this Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes has retired.†   (source)
  • You should go to the best lectures—Arkwright on Demosthenes for instance— irrespective of whether they are in your school or not….†   (source)
  • But in spite of Macaulay's brilliancy and his admirable faculty of making the commonplace seem fresh and picturesque, his positiveness wearied me at times, and his frequent sacrifices of truth to effect kept me in a questioning attitude very unlike the attitude of reverence in which I had listened to the Demosthenes of Great Britain.†   (source)
  • "Demosthenes, I know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden mouth!" said Bilibin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with satisfaction.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE HEARTACHE Whatever his motive might have been, Laurie studied to some purpose that year, for he graduated with honor, and gave the Latin oration with the grace of a Phillips and the eloquence of a Demosthenes, so his friends said.†   (source)
  • Why not bring in Henry Grattan and Flood and Demosthenes and Edmund Burke?†   (source)
  • Athens, as we learn from Demosthenes, was the arbiter of Greece seventy-three years.†   (source)
  • Certain it is, they sunk deeper into his lordship than anything which Demosthenes or Cicero could have said on the occasion.†   (source)
  • Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country in a style equal to its merits and felicity.†   (source)
  • "Demosthenian eloquence," said Don Quixote, "means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world."†   (source)
  • Nor do I believe that all the imagination, fire, and judgment of Pitt, could have produced those orations that have made the senate of England, in these our times, a rival in eloquence to Greece and Rome, if he had not been so well read in the writings of Demosthenes and Cicero, as to have transferred their whole spirit into his speeches, and, with their spirit, their knowledge too.†   (source)
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