 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Political Science - 1988 - 316 pages
...with all the famous Political Orations." Some should be memorized, he added, and "solemnly pronounced with right accent, and grace, as might be taught,...of Demosthenes or Cicero, Euripides, or Sophocles." 44 Through the centuries, theorists have believed that listening to the delivery of eloquence disposed... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...themselves; which if they were not only read, but some of them got by memory, and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace, as might be taught, would endue them even with the spirit and vigour of Demosthenes or Cicero, Euripides or Sophocles. And now, lasdy, will be the time to read with... | |
 | Juliet Cummins, David Burchell - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 264 pages
...interlocuters' immediate personal development and eventual professional conduct. The catechetical practice would "endue them even with the spirit, and vigor of Demosthenes or Cicero" which they would hopefully carry into their professions (RM9&4). After completing their formal education... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - Classical philology - 1908 - 544 pages
...extoll'd remains of Grecian Lawgivers, Lycurgus, Solon, Zaleucus, Charondas, and thence to all the Roman Edicts and Tables with their Justinian'. ' Then will...as is useful', to be followed in due course by ' a gracefull and ornate Rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato, Aristotle, Phalereus, Cicero, Herfhogenes,... | |
 | 96 pages
...learned in close connection with political oratory. ' These, if got by memory and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace, as might be taught, would endue them even with the spirit and vigour of Demosthenes or Cicero, Euripides or Sophocles.' When their minds are truly stored with this... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1907 - 148 pages
...themselves ; which , if they were not only read, but some of them got by memory, and solemnly, pronounced with right accent and grace, as might be taught , would endue them even with the spirit and vigour of Demosthenes or Cicero , Euripides or Sophocles. And now, lastly , will be the lime to read... | |
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When all these employments are well conquered, then will the choice histories, heroic poems, and Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument with all the famous political orations offer themselves; which if they were not only read, but some... 
