 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 432 pages
...Athens would certainly become miftrefs of all Greece. Ariftides hereupon returned to the aflembly, and only declared to them that indeed nothing could be more advantageous to the commonwealth than Themiltocles's projeft, but that at the fame time nothing in the world could be more unjuft. All the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1805 - 350 pages
...therefore, taking him aside, told him, that the design he had conceived was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states, which then lay in a neighbouring port; and thus procure Athens an undisputed sovereignty of the sea. Aristides, inwardly displeased at the proposal,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1806 - 444 pages
...this purpose. To him Themistocles privately signified his intention of burning the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states , which then lay in a neighbouring port , and thus rendering Athens the undisputed sovereign of the sea. Aristides , shoco base/ a proposal ; made... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...this purpose. To him Themistocles privately signified his intention of burning the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states, which then lay in a neighbouring port, and thus rendering Athens the undisputed sovereign of the sea. Aristides, shocked at so base a proposal,... | |
 | 1792 - 620 pages
...the •would certainly become miftrefs of all Greece. .Ariftides hereupon returned to the aflembly, and only declared to them, that indeed nothing could be more advantageous to the commonwealth than Themiftocles' project, but that at the fame to repent their choice. He prefided over time nothing in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1812 - 454 pages
...therefore, taking him aside, told him, that the design he had conceived was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states, which then lay in a neighbouring port, and thus procure Athens an undisputed sovereignty of the sea. Aristides, inwardly displeased at the proposal,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1814 - 578 pages
...therefore, taking him aside, told him, that the design he had conceived was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states, which then lay in a neighbouring, port, and thus procure for Athens an undisputed sovereignty of tfte sea. Aristides, inwardly displeased at the... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1815 - 544 pages
...having taken him aside, told him, that the design he had conceived was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states which then lay in...Greece. Aristides hereupon returned to the assembly, ami only declared to them, that indeed nothing could be more advantageous to the commonwealth than... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1818 - 346 pages
...therefore, taking him aside, told him, that the design he had conceived was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states, which then lay in a neighboring port} and thus procure Athens an undisputed sovereignty of the sea. Aristides, inwardly... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 386 pages
...having taken him aside, told him, that the deisgn he had conceived was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states, which then lay...Aristides hereupon returned to the assembly, and only dea Flut. in Thuaitt. p. t2 r, i23. In Arut. p. 332. clared to them, that indeed nothing could be more... | |
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Themistocles taking him aside, told him that the design he had conceived, was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states which then lay in a neighbouring port, when Athens would assuredly become mistress of all Greece. 
