“Demosthenes, the son of Demosthenes, of the Pæanian township, made this motion, ”—the usual form of the commencement of the Votes of the Athenian Assembly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demosthenes] Reference

Action is everything according to the notion of Demosthenes -- 'action, action, action,' was his motto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina] Reference

Athens recalled Demosthenes and he made a successful tour of the cities to rally them against Antipater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

And here it is well to record a remark of Demosthenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

We do not quite understand how the fact that Demosthenes was a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

Demosthenes of the American Continent, was the eloquent orator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference

McHenry and Patrick Henry, the Demosthenes of the Revolution, were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

Demosthenes was born 382 B.C. and died 322 B.C., at the age of sixty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

It is but rare indeed that any country or age produces a Demosthenes, a.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

Hopeful, that some Socrates or Demosthenes might develop out of his offspring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference

It well illustrated Demosthenes 'famous rule for oratory, "Action! action! action!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative] Reference

Demosthenes cites four oracular utterances, two from Dodona, the others probably from Delphi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

Demosthenes of Iseus, a man moste Eloquent: Ci - cero of Philo and Milo, famous in wisedome and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference

Even Demosthenes did not seem too ridiculous to her, for many of her most respected friends were spiritualists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference

Demosthenes that he always afterwards formed his elocution and action on the models of the most celebrated actors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference

Demosthenes at least, the Lenaea and the Megala Dionysia were held in different precincts, and that the Lenaea and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

BOthe a like, Demosthenes and Tully wer put to death, Demosthenes died, Antipater gouernyng by the handes of Archias.    From Wordnik.com.  [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference

In another part of the same room, young ladies were reading to a lady-teacher an oration of Demosthenes in classic Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

The Arians, who trembled at his name, prevailed with Demosthenes, vicar or deputy-governor of the province, to banish him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

There was not one, not even the thundering, the inflexible Demosthenes, so terrible to tyrants, but was subjected to their sway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

= Demades =, a contemporary of Demosthenes, who, by his genius for extempore oratory, raised himself to a predominant position in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

No doubte, but that Demosthenes made a wittie, copious, and ingenious o - racions, when the Athenians were minded to giue and be.    From Wordnik.com.  [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference

Bunyan is indeed as decidedly the first of allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspeare the first of dramatists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

Demosthenes, most happily, was forced to depend upon the resources of his own intellect, and determined to devote his life to oratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Demosthenes wanted not industrie and labour, to attain to that singularitée, whi - che he had, bothe in Eloquence, and pronounciacion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference

Omitting an exact comparison of the respective faculties in speaking of Demosthenes and Cicero, yet this much seems fit to be said; that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Similarly Demosthenes, his state-rival, when the Athenians called upon him for his advice, refused to give it, saying, "I am not prepared.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference