This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773 edition. Excerpt: ... the affections of my fellow citizens, crushing all my best hopes, and depriving me of the happiness of doing good, and of the inestimable advantages of independence. CHAP. VII. Agathon is banijtied from Athens. /"T" H E period of my history I am M now arrived at, revives such painful reflections, that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773 edition. Excerpt: ... the affections of my fellow citizens, crushing all my best hopes, and depriving me of the happiness of doing good, and of the inestimable advantages of independence. CHAP. VII. Agathon is banijtied from Athens. /"T" H E period of my history I am M now arrived at, revives such painful reflections, that I may well be excused from dwelling any longer upon it than is necessary for my own justisication. It is possible, that some of my enemies might be influenced to combine against me from motives of republican zeal, and might have thought they should render as important a service to their country by contributing to my overthrow, as Hartnodius and Ariflogiton fancied they did in aflaslinating the sons of Pifistratus. Bur, in in general, it is certain that those, who most obstinately sought my ruin, were actuated by no other motive than their jealousy of the power I was invested with by the unanimous voice of the people, which they considered with reason as an obstacle to their ambitious and interested designs: most of them persuaded themselves also, that they had some private injuries to revenge; som* still kept alive the resentment they had entertained against me from the sirst time I appeared in public, when I rescued the integrity of my friend from the effects of their maKce; others were offended, because in preference to them I was elected by the people to command against the revolted islands; many were offended at being deprived of those advantages they had possessed from the unjust oppressions they had practised against these islanders. It was in vain to alledge, that L had not designed to offend them, and that all these were merely accidental conN 3 sequences, sequences, from having done my duty, and acted agreeably to the dictates of...
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