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Excerpt from Demosthenes With Extracts From His Orations, and a Critical Discussion of the Trial on the Crown N the seventeenth century, when public speaking was restricted principally to the pulpit and bar F énelon restored the omnipotence of Grecian eloquence. To-day our assemblies are manifestly unceremonious they exhibit great examples of the efiiciency of elo quence, but still they are far from those triumphs familiar to Greek antiquity. And so we can share even in these days the admiration of the author of The Letter to the Academy. 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.