Word: demostheneses
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Demosthenes blamed the decline of Greece on the decay of patriotism among its citizens, the decay of probity among their leaders. After Alexander the Macedonian, many people conquered Greece. The Romans conquered it in the Second Century B.C. Thereafter the Hellenes, no longer masters of the civilized world, were overrun...
*For a corroborating view, see p. 53. *Janizariat version of this stops before the word "but." *Mr. Vincent may run for a third term, but it will be over the dead body of Colonel Demosthenes Petrus Calixte, former commandant of the Garde d'Haiti, now exiled to New York...
As the delegates gathered, as Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (sent in lieu of his chief, Cordell Hull, so that the smaller countries would not feel dominated) began issuing statements, as President Juan Demosthenes Arosemena of Panama polished up a speech of welcome, the U. S. got busy backstage...
Most famed among the secessionists are Carl Jung of Zürich, who has "retreated from psychoanalysis" into semi-religious therapy, and Alfred Adler, who died in Aberdeen two years ago. Adler held that man's mainspring is not sexual desire but a desire for superiority. Physical infirmity or...
* Famed stammerers of the past: Aesop, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Vergil, Erasmus, Darwin.