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Think what Pericles did in Athens, and Demosthenes. (source)Demosthenes = pseudonym adopted by Valentine Wiggins (a character in this story) based upon a persuasive Athenian statesman and orator from the 4th century BCE
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This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.† (source)
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On hearing that John Quincy's course of studies did not include Cicero and Demosthenes, Adams could hardly contain his indignation.† (source)
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Demosthenes —— PROLOGUE.† (source)
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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)
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Perhaps some latent Demosthenes was sitting before me awaiting the coming of some twentieth-century Macedonia.† (source)
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You should go to the best lectures—Arkwright on Demosthenes for instance— irrespective of whether they are in your school or not....Clothes.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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"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)
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What I can't figure out is why they wanted Demosthenes before Locke. (source)Demosthenes = pseudonym adopted by Valentine Wiggins (a character in this story) based upon a persuasive Athenian statesman and orator from the 4th century BCE
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Someone had recently published a savage commentary on the Demosthenes' collected writings. (source)
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Pericles, yes, but Demosthenes was right about Philip. (source)
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Her main identity on the nets was Demosthenes. (source)
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There's always the chance that Demosthenes is right. (source)
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They had been doing it only seven months when one of the west coast nets sent Demosthenes a message. (source)
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