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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEMOSTHENES. O EVER it was, my Sofllus, that wrote the encomium upon Alhiciades for his victory in the chariot-race at the Olympic games; whether Euripidet, (which is the common opinion) or fome other, he afferts, that, The firft requifite to happinefs, is, that a man be born in a famous city. Bat as to real happinefs, which confifts principally in the difpoiition and hahit of the mind, for my part, I think it would make no difference, though a man fhould be born in an inconfiderable town, or of a mother who had no advantages either of fize or beauty: for it is ridiculous to fuppofe that Julis, a final! town in the ifle of Ceos, which is itfelf not great, and -Sgina, which an Athenian wanted to have taken away, as an eye-fore to the Pirwue, (hould giva hirth to good poets and players, and not be able to produce a man who might attain the virtues of juftice, of contentment, and magnanimity. Indeed, thofe arts, which are to gain the mafter of them confiderable profit or honour, may probably not flourifh, in mean and infignificant towns. But virtue, like a ftrong and hardy plant, will take root in any place, where it can find an ingenuous nature and a mind that has no averfion to labour and difcipline. Therefore, if our fentiments or conduct fall fhort of the point they ought to reach, we muft not impute it to the obfcurity of the place vrhere we were born, but to our little felves. Thefe reflections, however, extend not to an author, who would write a hiftory of events which happened in a foreign country, and cannot be come at in his own. As he has his materials to collect from a variety of books dik perfed in different libraries, his firft care fhould be to take up his refidence in fome populous town which has an amhition for literature. There he will meet with m...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217844819
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217844812
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 313 gr


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