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Title: Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Savage, Charles C., 1820-1907
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: Buffalo, Phinney & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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honor with an inscription translated int0this distich:— « Si tibi par menti robur, Vir magne, fuisset,Graeoia non Macedae succubuisset hero. Demosthenes has been deservedly called the prince of orators ; and Cicerohis successful rival among the Romans, calls him a perfect model, and such a?he wished to be. These two great princes of eloquence have often been com-pared together; but the judgment hesitates to which to give the preferenceThey both arrived at perfection: but the measures by which they obtained itwere diametrically opposite. Demosthenes has been compared, and with pro-priety, by his rival /Eschines, to a siren, from the melody of his expression.No orator can be said to have expressed the various passions of hatred, resent-ment, or indignation, with more energy than he. As a proof of his uncommonapplication, he transcribed ten times the history of Thucydides, that he mightnot merely imitate, but possess, the force and energy of the great historian. DEMOSTHENES. 31 .. s K
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Demosthenes—from the drawing by Rubens after an antique Bust. S2 ARISTOTLE. ARISTOTLE. ARISTOTLE, the great founder of the peripatetic sect of philosophers, wasborn at Stagyra, in Thrace, B. C. 384. After his fathers death he went loAthens, to hear Platos lectures, where he soon signalized himself by thebrightness of his genius. He had been of an inactive and dissolute dispositionin his youth, but now he applied himself with uncommon diligence, and, afterhe had spent twenty years in hearing the instructions of Plato, he opened aschool for himself, for which he was accused of ingratitude and illiberality byhis ancient master. He was moderate in his meals ; he slept little, and alwayshad one arm out of his couch with a bullet in it, which by falling into a brazenbasin underneath, early awakened him. The fame of his abilities havingreached Philip of Macedon, that prince made him tutor to his son, Alexanderthe Great; and he so carefully attended the young prince, that Philip rebuiltthe

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