The Mental Guide; Being a Compend of the First Principles of Metaphysics and a System of Attaining an Easy and Correct Mode of Thought and Style in ... of the Human Mind for Schools and Academies - Softcover

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1828. Excerpt: ... opinion. And whatever be your resolution, the gods grant that we may feel its good effects. LESSON XCIV. Extract from Demosthenes' Oration on the Regulation of the State. THUS it lately happened--(Let no man interrupt me : let me have a patient hearing)--that some persons broke into the treasury. The. speakers all instantly exclaimed, Our free constitution is overturned: our laws are no more. And now, ye men of Athens ! judge, if I speak with reason. They who are guilty of this crime, justly deserve to die ; but^ by such of&n/lers, our constitution is not overturned. .Again, some oars have been stolen from our arsenal.^ Stripes and tortures for the villaih'/ our constitutionsubverted ! ' This is the general isrf. But what-is my opinion 1 This criminal, like the wtticrs hath deserved to die : but, if some are criminal, our constitution is not therefore subverted. There is no man who dares openly and boldly to declare, in w.hat case our constitution is subverted. But I shall declare it. When you, Athenians ! become a helpless rabble, without conduct, without property, without arms, without order, without unanimity ; when neither general, nor any other person, hath the least respect fori your decrees ; when no man dares to inform you of this yoar condition, to urge the necessary reformation, much less to exert his efforts to effect it--then is your constitution subverted. And this is now the case. But, O my^llow-citizens ! a language of a different nature hath pdured in upon us ; false, and highly dangerous to the state. Such is that assertion, that in your tribunals is your great security ; that your, right of suffrage is the real bulwark of the constitution. That these tribunals are our common resource in all private contests, I acknowledge : but, it is by arms we are to subdue our e...

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