Moreover, who ever took more pains to oppose Isocrates?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

Isocrates, to a certain extent, can be counted among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Isocrates in his ninety-fourth year wrote a most noble work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury] Reference

He became the scholar of Isocrates, and he was the hearer of Plato.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference

Or Isocrates, that was so cowhearted that he dared never attempt it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Folly] Reference

'Isocrates is but a youth: but I will discover to you what I think of him.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference

This is also what it means to the rhetorician Isocrates, Plato's older contemporary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Another disciple of Isocrates, Theopompus of Chios, took a quite different direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Isocrates plures ob formam immortalitatem adepti sunt quam ob reliquas omnes virtutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

What a price he sets on the feats of talent, on the powers of Pericles, of Isocrates, of Parmenides!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Men] Reference

(Republic 600A) and Isocrates (Busiris 28) regard them with respect for their conduct and discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Two thousand years ago, Isocrates, the Greek rhetorician, said: "Exercise for health, not for strength.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

In Isocrates these are scattered and unsystematic ideas; his successors reduce them to sys - tem and art.    From Wordnik.com.  [RHETORIC AFTER PLATO] Reference

(This is not the “true” character of the speaker, as with Isocrates, but “rhetorical” character.).    From Wordnik.com.  [RHETORIC AFTER PLATO] Reference

Plato, Xenophon, Isocrates, Aristotle, all give a bad import to the word; and the Sophists are regarded as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sophist] Reference

Herodotus is said to have read his History, and Isocrates to have recited his Panegyric at the Olympic games.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference

Isocrates adds to these ideas the distinction of the various kinds of oratory — the judicial, the epideictic.    From Wordnik.com.  [RHETORIC AFTER PLATO] Reference

Isocrates, Quintilian, and other orators and rhetoricians on the other, with Cicero seeking a synthesis of sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [EDUCATION] Reference

Many of the orations of Isocrates, which have been handed down to us, are but private pleadings of this character.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference

In his oration "On Peace", Isocrates proposes to the Athenian assembly policies for lasting peace with their neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amb. Alexandros P. Mallias: A New Beginning and the Wisdom of the Past: Why the Greek Classics are Still Relevant] Reference

Cicero, nor Quintilian de Oratore, nor Isocrates, nor Aristotle, nor Longinus, amongst the antients; — nor Vossius, nor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

The admirers of Isocrates place the first invention of numbers among those other improvements which do honour to his memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference

THerefore, Isocrates dooeth pronounce worthelie, the roote of learning and vertue to be bitter, and the fru - tes pleasaunte.    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

Isocrates demonico praecipit ut quum alicujus amicitiam vellet illum laudet, quod laus initium amoris sit, vituperatio simultatum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Isocrates lived in the age next to theirs; who is at all times praised by us above all other orators of his class, even though you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

Both of these men were predecessors of Isocrates; so that it was in his moderation, not in his invention, that he is superior to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference

Isocrates believes that the end of persuasion is achieved less through observance of a set of rules or an “art” than through the possession by the orator of.    From Wordnik.com.  [RHETORIC AFTER PLATO] Reference

Isocrates himself practiced his art as orator, writer of speeches, and teacher, at a time when speech-making was an impor - tant part of the political life of Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [RHETORIC AFTER PLATO] Reference

Hieronymus, a Peripatetic of the highest character, out of all the numerous compositions of Isocrates, picked out about thirty verses, chiefly iambics, but some also anapaests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference