Excerpt from Modern Jury Trials and Advocates: Containing Condensed Cases, With Sketches and Speeches of American Advocates; The Art of Winning Cases and Manner of Counsel Described, With Notes and Rules of Practice Yet there are single Speeches, that have changed the fate of nations, or saved a poor, quivering human being from a cruel death of horrible torture; speeches that carry with them an inspiration forever, and, like old, familiar songs, when repeated, always awaken renewed interest. Very much of an oration dies with its author and the event that called it into being. A stranger, coming in suddenly on a scene of local interest, in the midst of a stirring speech, would realize but faintly the real spirit of the occasion, and could hardly compre hend its true beauty. And no one will claim that a clear repeti tion of that matchless oration of Demosthenes, in his contest for a crown, which included those magic words, M'an is not born to his parents only, but to his country! Could be delivered by any other than the mighty genius himself, who had long been impris oued by Alexander; Who was moved by the plaudits of a mighty people, whose liberty he believed was hanging in the balance, add ing fire to his eye, power to his voice, soul to his sentences, and energy to his expression. It was the pleading and the beseeching look from the crowded Athenaeum that loosed the speaker's tongue, thrilled his nerves, lit up his features, and formed a granite foundation to his argument. Remove the surroundings, and you remove the charm of the ora tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.