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Excerpt from Orations of Demosthenes, Vol. 1 But although the Love of Country be certain ly the firft of all human Virtues, yet our Author had many other Excellences in his Character. You, Sir, are capable of pronouncing upon the Merit of 'hofe political Maxims, fo frequent in his Orations, and whether he was really that able Statefman, the World in general hath allowed. Yet we may Ven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.