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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt:...to render your commonwealth a service should begin by curing your ears. They are corrupted: so many falsehoods have you been accustomed to hear, any thing indeed rather than what is salutary. For instance--let me not be interrupted by clamor, before I have finished--certain persons lately, you know, broke open the treasury:2 and all the orators cried out, that the democracy was overthrown, the laws were annihilated; or to that effect. Now, ye men of Athens--only see whether I speak truly--the guilty parties committed a crime worthy of death; but the democracy is not overthrown by such means. Again, some oars were stolen:3 and people clamored for stripes and torture, saying 1 Compare Shakspeare, Henry IV. Second Part, Prologue:Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. 'The omadodofioc was a chamber at the back of the Parthenon, used for a treasury, 3 If this circumstance in any way related to the story of Antiphon, mentioned in the Oration on the Crown, it might help to determine the date of this Oration. But the connection is not sufficiently apparent. Leland has the following note on this passage: "We can not well suppose, that the depredations made in their naval stores were really so slight and inconsiderable as they are represented in these extenuating terms. A design had lately been concerted of a very momentous and alarming nature, and an attempt made on the naval stores at Athens, which Demosthenes himself labored with the utmost zeal to detect and punish. A man named Antiphon had been for some time considered' an Athenian citizen, till by examination of the registers he was found to be really a foreigner, was accordingly deprived of all the privileges of a native, and driven with ignominy from the city. Enraged at this disgrace, he went to P...