 Alcibiades, his magnificence, his ambition, his unprincipled conduct, and his various extravagancies, were made constant subjects of public conversation. His abilities, at the same time, and even his virtues, were compared to those by which the Peisistratids...  The History of Greece - Page 194by William Mitford - 1823Full view - About this book
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 466 pages
...observations tending to excite suspicion and alarm. The power and influence of Alcibiades, his magnificence, his ambition, his unprincipled conduct, and his various...were made constant subjects of public conversation. Every occurrence was made, by some construction, to establish a plot for establishing tyranny. Fear,... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 470 pages
...excite suspicion and alarm. The power and influence of Alcihiades, h'us magnificence, his ambition, bis unprincipled conduct, and his various extravagancies,...were made constant subjects of public conversation. Every occurrence was made, by some construction, to establish a plot for establishing tyranny. Fear,... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 468 pages
...influence of Alcibiades, his magnificence, his ambition, has unprinciRAMSAY'S UNIVERSAL HISTORY, pled conduct, and his various extravagancies, were made constant subjects of public conversation. Every occurrence was made, by some construction, to establish a plot for establishing tyranny. Fear,... | |
 | William Mitford - 1822 - 408 pages
...might excite suspicion and alarm. The power and influence of b'c'53' Alcibiades, his magnificence, his ambition, his unprincipled conduct, and his various...tenfold ; the execration to which their memory had been been condemned, by the party which had overborne them, was alledged in proof of their enormities ;... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 502 pages
...Alcibiades was the ringleader. " The power and influence of Alcibiades (says Mitford), his magnificence, his ambition, his unprincipled conduct, and his various...condemned by the party which had overborne them, was alleged in proof of their enormities ; and the circumstance that the Athenians, unable to effect their... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 522 pages
...Alcibiades was the ringleader. "The power and influence of Alcibiades (says Mitford), his magnificence, his ambition, his unprincipled conduct, and his various...condemned by the party which had overborne them, was alleged in proof of their enormities; and the circumstance that the Athenians, unable to effect their... | |
 | William Mitford - 1829 - 520 pages
...Alcibiades, his magnificence, his ambition, his unprincipled conduct, and his various extravagances were made constant subjects of public conversation....even his virtues, were compared to those by which the Pisistratidae had acquired the tyranny. The severities which had occasioned the expulsion of those... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 424 pages
...His power, his magnificence, his ambition, his unprincipled conduct, anil his various extravagances, were made constant subjects of public conversation....execration to which their memory had been condemned was alleged in proof of their enormities; and the circumstance that the Athenians, unable to effect... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 422 pages
...His power, his magnificence, his ambition, his unprincipled conduct, and his various extravagances, were made constant subjects of public conversation....execration to which their memory had been condemned was alleged in proof of their enormities; and the circumstance that the Athenians, unable to effect... | |
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