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Hortensius: Or, the Advocate; An Historical Essay. E-book. Formato PDF
William Forsyth
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
History of Greece, when speaking of the democratic form of government as treated of by Aristotle, says, We shall not confine ourselves to the technical lan guage of his system, but will endeavour to define the notion of democracy, as the word was commonly under stood by the Greeks, so as to separate the essence of...
The Rules of Evidence as Applicable to the Credibility of History. E-book. Formato PDF
William Forsyth
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
But history deals with general rather than particular facts — with,results,rather than details — and from the nature and necessity, of the case must be content with looser modes of proof, than is necessary or expedient in judicial trials. All that we are entitled to ask from her is such an amount of evidence for the...
Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero. E-book. Formato PDF
William Forsyth
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
My object has been to exhibit Cicero not only as an orator and a politician, but as he was in private life, surrounded by his family and fi'iends speaking and acting like other men in the ordinary affairs of home. And the more we accustom ourselves to re gard the ancients as persons of like passions as our selves,...