 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 524 sivua
...though no violent partisan, he was a warm-hearted patriot, when, at the news of the battle of Charronea, he refused to take food for several days, and thus closed his long and honourable career at ninety-eight years of age, Bc 338. There are extant eight orations of Isocrates... | |
 | 1839 - 518 sivua
...though no violent partisan, he was a warm-hearted patriot, when, at the news of the battle of Chammea, he refused to take food for several days, and thus closed his long and honourable career at ninety-eight years of age, BC 338. There are extant eight orations of Isocrates... | |
 | 1839 - 518 sivua
...though no violent partisan, be was a warm-hearted patriot, when, at the news of the battle of Chwronea, he refused to take food for several days, and thus closed his long and honourable career at ninety-eight years of age, BC 338. There are extant eight orations of Isocrates... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 610 sivua
...he proved, however, a warm-hearted patriot ; for, on receiving the news of the battle of Chseronea, he refused to take food for several days, and thus...Augustus, recognized only twenty-eight of them as genuine,2 and of these only twenty-one have come down to us. Eight of them were written for judicial... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 498 sivua
...that were attributed to Isocrates, but Caceilins, a rhetorician of the age of Augustus, recognized but twenty-eight of them as genuine ; and of these only twenty-one have come down to us. Eight of these were written for judieial purposes in civil cases, and intended to serve as' models for this... | |
 | C; A. BLOSS. - 1867 - 452 sivua
...propriety of bringing all Greece into a confederacy against Persia. After the battle of Oheroneia, he refused to take food for several days, and thus closed his long and honorable caroer. at the age of 98. Only twenty -one of his orations are now extant. One of these is said to... | |
 | Celestia Angenette Bloss - 1870 - 502 sivua
...propriety of bringing all Greece into a confederacy against Persia. After the battle of Cheroneia, he refused to take food for several days, and thus closed his long and honorable career, at the nge of 98. Only twenty-one of his orations ore now extant. One of these is said to have occupied him... | |
 | Celestia Angenette Bloss - 1874 - 488 sivua
...propriety of bringing all Greece into a confederacy against Persia. After the battle of Cheroneia, he refused to take food for several days, and thus closed his long and honorable career, at the ¡ige of 93. Only twenty-one of his orations are now extant One of these is said to have occupied him... | |
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Eight of them were written for judicial purposes in civil cases, and intended to serve as models for this species of oratory. All the others are political discourses, or show-speeches, intended to be read by a large public ; they are particularly... 