Bn. — Suppose you have rime for meditation?

Xo. — TTien I leam carefully what has been worked out in
this way; and, in order that I may remember better, I repeat
them to myself so that when occasion arises I may jwonounce
them as if from the written word.
Bu. — ^\Miat if some exigency should demand an extempor-
aneous speech?

Xo. — How can that happen to one who has no public life?
But if I should have occasion I am not better than Demosthenes,
who would never get up imless he had prepared himself however
much he was called by the shouts of the people. And I could
not think that I need-be ashamed of what is praised in the chief
orator among the Greeks or that I should be sorry for the cen-
sure if any one should say tw X^pwr Mrdjajr*

• That mj- Issgaage was bcvikisi.
