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Excerpt from Demosthenes on the Peace, Second Philippic, on the Chersonesus and Third Philippic: With Introduction and Critical and Explanatory Notes The style of Demosthenes in general is the theme of an admirable piece of criticism in Hume's Essay on Eloquence - C' Could it be copied, its success would be infallible over a modern assembly. It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense it is vehement reasoning, without any appearance of art it is disdain, anger, boldness, freedom, involved in a continuous stream of argument; and of all known human productions, the orations of Demosthenes present odels, which approach the nearest to perfe 70, ed. 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.