Works, Volume 9J. Stockdale, 1807 |
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Page 14
... Athenian laws of hereditary and teftamentary fucceffion , and give abundant fatisfaction upon that head , I here present to the student of our English laws in his native language , not doubting but that they will yield him the fame ...
... Athenian laws of hereditary and teftamentary fucceffion , and give abundant fatisfaction upon that head , I here present to the student of our English laws in his native language , not doubting but that they will yield him the fame ...
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... Athenian : but whatever country may claim the honour of being his birth - place , it is certain that he was educated at Athens , where he became famous as a pleader of caufes after the close of the Peloponnefian war . The time of his ...
... Athenian : but whatever country may claim the honour of being his birth - place , it is certain that he was educated at Athens , where he became famous as a pleader of caufes after the close of the Peloponnefian war . The time of his ...
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... Athenian citizens , if his temper and inclination had not induced him to prefer the certain advantages of a very useful profeffion to the precarious favours which the giddy populace bestow and refume at their plea- fure . This , however ...
... Athenian citizens , if his temper and inclination had not induced him to prefer the certain advantages of a very useful profeffion to the precarious favours which the giddy populace bestow and refume at their plea- fure . This , however ...
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... Athenian law , which the reader will find illuftrated in one or two of the follow- ing speeches : thence he paffed to an investiga- tion of the fact , and contended , that no will at all had been made by his brother : and this he proved ...
... Athenian law , which the reader will find illuftrated in one or two of the follow- ing speeches : thence he paffed to an investiga- tion of the fact , and contended , that no will at all had been made by his brother : and this he proved ...
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... Athenian laws and manners ; and , if they should appear inferior in all thofe qualities to the speeches usually delivered by our leading advo- : cates , we shall have reafon to congratulate our age 32 THE PREFATORY DISCOURSE .
... Athenian laws and manners ; and , if they should appear inferior in all thofe qualities to the speeches usually delivered by our leading advo- : cates , we shall have reafon to congratulate our age 32 THE PREFATORY DISCOURSE .
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adopted fon adverfaries affert Afide Aftyphilus againſt alfo alſo anſwered Apollodorus Archon Athenian Athens becauſe brother cafe caufe cauſe Charidemus Ciron claim Cleon coufin court daugh daughter deceaſed defcended defire Demochares Demofthenes depofitions Dicæogenes Diocles Dufbm Dufhm eftate Endius eſtate Eubulides Euctemon Eupolis faid falfely fame father favour fecond feems fhall fhould fifter fince firft firſt fome fortune friends fucceffion fuch fuit fuppofe fupporting Hagnias Hagnon heir himſelf houſe huſband Ifæus iffue inheritance judges juft juftice juſt lefs legitimate Leochares Lyfias Mádh marriage married Menexenus minas moft moſt mother muft muſt myſelf neareſt Nicodemus obferved occafion orator paffage perfons perfuaded Philoctemon Phylomache pleaſed poffeffed poffeffions prefent prove publick Pyrrhus raiſed reaſon reſpect Sacontalá ſeems ſhall ſhe ſon ſpeak ſpeech Stratocles ſuppoſe thefe themſelves Theopompus ther theſe thofe thoſe thou tion uncle uſe ward whilft whofe whoſe witneffes Xenocles