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Excerpt from On the Peace, Second Philippic: On the Chersonesus and Third Philippic Of the other Speeches included in this volume, the Second Philippic holds an important place in the series, while the Third Philippic is generally acknow ledged to be the most powerful of all the parlia mentary Speeches of Demosthenes, and the Speech On the Chersonmzs, though less familiar to English students, is little, if at all, inferior to it. The speech in question was regarded by Lord Brougham as the most argumentative and the finest' of all the Philippics, and by Lord Lyndhurst as eminently of a kind that was well adapted to succeed in our Senate.' 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.