Excerpt from The Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown: With Notes The present edition of The Crown owes its existence to the conviction, that the ripening scholarship of our land calls for a new attempt to illustrate this great author. It would have been the choice of the editor, that the work should have been undertakenby some abler and more ex perienced hand; but as no such hand was put to it, he has, after much hesitation, ventured to attempt it himself The points upon which most attention has been bestowed, and in which the merits of the edition, if it have any, will be found principally to consist, are the following. 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.