The orations and epistles of Isocrates Author:Isocrates 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: r THE THIRD. ORATION OF .; IS OCR A TES, C A L ,L ED THE. PA N E G Y RIG, . . As being addrefled to x . The univerfal Affembly of all Gr... more »eece, EXHORTING The Grsecians to concord, and the undertaking jointly a war againft the Perfians. The SUBJECT. is that celebrated oration, which if efleemed one of the bejl in Ifocrates. Some have fat J, that he employed ten, and others, fifteen years in the compojition. He encourages the Greeks to undertake a general expedition againft the Perfians, and difputes with the Lacademo- nians about the right of principality. He affirms, that all the general advantages of Greece origi- ginally came from Athens, and, upon that account ', it had ajujl claim to precedency. Bejides, that the Athenians had excelled all the Grecians in the demonjiration they gave of their courage in different dangerous wars. Laftly, turning to the judges, he fays, reflett candidly if lean be f aid to corrupt youth, who exhort them to the mojl heroic virtues, fet before them the noble actions of their ancejiors, and endeavour to enflame them with a love of their country. In fine, this oration is laboured with the utmojl art, and exatt- nefsofthe rules of eloquence. THE FOURTH Oration of Isocrates, CALLED THE P A N E G Y R I C, As being Addressed to the .$ Univerfal Assembly of all Greece : EXHORTING THE Grecians to Concord, and the undertaking jointly a War againfl the P E R s i A N s. 1HAVE often wondered, that thofe who have made popular aflemblics, and appointed public games, fhould have fo gready rewarded the excellency and good habit of the body, but paid no honours to fuch as, in a private capacity, confulted the happinefs of the ftate, and fo prepared their minds, that they became an univer- fal benefit to ...« less