It requires repeated perusal and reflection to decide rightly on any other portion of literature.

But with respect to works of which the merit depends on their instantaneous effect the most hasty judgment is likely to be best.
The history of eloquence at Athens is remarkable.

From a very early period great speakers had flourished there.

Pisistratus and Themistocles are said to have owed much of their influence to their talents for debate.

We learn, with more certainty, that Pericles was distinguished by extraordinary oratorical powers.