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"under the contemplation of such exquisite and manifold perfection; and feel, with deep humility, how presumptuous it was in us to think of composing the legend of the beatified athlete of the faith St. Bertrand of the Carmagnoles.'"

Besides the extreme coarseness of invective of the Athenian orators, the orators, rhetors, and historians "indulged," says Mr. Grote, "in so much exaggeration and untruth respecting this convention that they have raised a suspicion against themselves." "The passages of these orators (Æschines, "De Fals. Legat.," c. 54, p. 300, and "Andokides or the Pseudo-Andokides," De Pace, c. 1) involve so much both of historical and chronological inaccuracy that it is unsafe to cite them, and impossible to amend them except by conjecture." "The loose language of these orators (Demosthenes, Lykurgus, Isokrates) renders it impossible to determine what was the precise limit in respect of vicinity to the coast."

Nevertheless, it may be seen, as James Mill has said in his article Colony in the supplement to "Encyclopedia Britannica," from the Athenian orators that the licence of the rich and powerful