Demosthenes

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“In the oratory of more thn two thousand years Demosthenes stands in the front rank, and will always hold first place among the orators of the ancient world. He was born in 384 B.C. When he was only seven years of age, his father, a wealthy manufacturer of arms in Athens, died. When the youth came of age he found himself stripped of his inheritance by dishonest trustees. Aided by Isaeus he commenced a lawsuit against the chief embezzler, and succeeded in recovering about a third of his father’s estate. The loss of his patrimony was the means of developing a spirit of courage and self-relience, which might otherwise have remained latent.” — The Delphian Society, 1913

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The Delphian Society The World's Progress, Part III (Hammond, IN: W. B. Conkey Company, 1913)

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