This whole statement of Isokratês is exceedingly loose and untrustworthy, carrying back the commencement of the conspiracy of the Four Hundred to a time anterior to the banishment of Alkibiadês.
The oligarchical party in Argos, thus encouraged and reinforced, entered into a conspiracy with the Lacedæmonians to bring the city into alliance with Sparta as well as to overthrow the democracy.
On the second occasion, they rose up in conspiracyagainst this very democratical government, in order to subvert it, and constitute themselves an oligarchy in its place.
No enemy indeed appeared, either without or within; but theconspiracy had only been prevented from breaking out, so they imagined, by the recent inquiries and detection.
Oligarchical conspiracy of the Thousand-regiment at Argos, in concert with the Lacedæmonians.
Though neither the parties concerned, nor their purposes, were ever more than partially made out, the concert and conspiracy itself is unquestionable.
The conspiracy of the Pazzi strikingly displayed the absoluteness of the Medician dominion over the will and affections of the people of Florence.
Thereupon Thorsen and Kaempfaert imagined that Kaffrath was in the conspiracy to sell out and leave them with no particularly valuable pickings.
From him she learned of the political and financial conspiracy against Cowperwood, and was in an odd manner fascinated.
The lesson of the conspiracy of Amboise seven years before could not have been lost upon them.
Although the initial purpose of the conspiracy had failed, namely to take the King and drive out the Guises,[144] Condé and his followers did not fail to perceive that things were not entirely unfavorable.
Huguenots were numerous around Meaux (but so were they also around Orleans), and fear lest another conspiracy might be formed by having the place known so long in advance.
Salviati, the papal nuncio, who ought to have known, explicitly denies the rumor that a conspiracy was on foot by the Huguenots.
Hotman vented his disappointment at the failure of the conspiracy and his wrath because of the cruel policy of the Guises in a famous pamphlet directed against the cardinal of Lorraine.
He was expressly told that the aim of the conspiracy was to make away with the cardinal of Lorraine and all those of the house of Guise (Rev.
In the end the government sent 1,200 of those implicated in the conspiracy of Amboise or under suspicion to execution.
When Francis II died, a great number who had fled to Geneva and Germany after the conspiracyof Amboise came back to France.
What seemed to the Normans a great conspiracyof the north and west was forming.
But beneath the surface a great conspiracy was forming, for the purpose of overthrowing the new king and of putting his brother Robert in his place.
By degrees the details of the conspiracy came out.
Seven years later, in 1095, a conspiracy was formed by some of the barons who had been pardoned for their earlier rebellion, which might have resulted in a widespread insurrection but for the prompt action of William.
During Lent the movers of this conspiracywere especially active, and immediately after Easter the insurrection broke out.
Whatever may have been the extent of the conspiracy or the plans of the leaders, the entire movement collapsed before the Norman's firm determination to be master of the kingdom.
The Supreme Court decided that this agreement violated the Sherman Act--that it was a combination or a conspiracy in restraint of trade.
In the opinion of Grover Cleveland, then President of the United States, these proceedings constituted a "conspiracy in restraint of trade" among the States, and as such were prohibited by the Sherman Act.
Under the Sherman Law, an aggrieved citizen is authorized to bring private suit against persons engaged in a conspiracy to restrain his trade, and, if he successfully maintains his case, may recover three-fold damages.
Spain, the Pope, the League, were united in one perpetual conspiracy against her; and they relied on the cooperation of those subjects of hers whom her own cruelty was converting into traitors.
Machiavel and Caesar Borgia together could not form a conspiracy in such a senate, destructive to any but themselves and their accomplices.
Between these generals, with Pavia and others, a conspiracy was formed to restore the Bourbon monarchy under Alfonso XII.
Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Has the narrative of your sufferings any connexion with the conspiracy you are about to reveal to me?
Even when he had quite foiled the conspiracy of Sejanus, he was still haunted as much as ever with fears and apprehensions, insomuch that he never once stirred out of the Villa Jovis for nine months after.
It is said, however, that he not only oppressed the province by extortion, but entered into a conspiracy against his benefactor, for which he was banished.
He prosecuted Fannius Caepio, who had been engaged in a conspiracy with Varro Muraena against Augustus, and procured sentence of condemnation against him.
Footnote 609: Seneca was accused of complicity in the conspiracy of Caius Piso.
About sixty persons were engaged in the conspiracy against him, of whom Caius Cassius, and Marcus and Decimus Brutus were the chief.
He therefore the more readily condemned them in the case of Aemilius Lepidus, as guilty of adultery, and privy to that conspiracy against him.
Romulus, the founder of Rome, had the honour of an apotheosis conferred on him by the senate, under the title of Quirinus, to obviate the people's suspicion of his having been taken off by a conspiracy of the patrician order.
They are both in a conspiracy together against you and against me.
There is a conspiracy between them against you and against me.
You see a couple of shabby excursionists from Brighton, who have wandered to Dimchurch--and you instantly transform them into a pair of housebreakers in a conspiracy to rob and murder me!
In fact, he tended to scoff at conspiracy theories, claiming they were a substitute for hardheaded analysis.
Doesn't look to be any MITI conspiracy here, she thought.
In 1685 he joined the conspiracyin Holland to set Monmouth on the throne instead of James II.
Buonarroti, who in 1796 had been implicated in the conspiracy of "Gracchus" Babeuf (q.
Council of the Areopagus, though constitutionally it retained all its earlier powers and functions, augmented by the right to try persons accused of conspiracy against the state (Arist.
Wilfrid excitedly accused Anna of the guilt of a conspiracy to cause the destruction of Count Ammiani.
But whether he did or did not resign, the substance of power had already passed into the hands of his secretary, Mr. Woodson, who was hand and glove with his fellows in this conspiracy to make Kansas a slave State.
So far as Sheriff Jones is concerned, it is now manifest that this was a devilish conspiracy against the people of Lawrence, to cut their throats and burn up the town.
But this again gave the chiefs of this conspiracy abundant experience that it pays to do right, and that a good Providence had brought them prosperity and honor by defeating their original counsels and turning them into foolishness.
Here was congregated, and here was the headquarters of, that band of desperate men, who were in a conspiracy to make Kansas a slave State at whatever cost of blood, of fraud, or violence.
That Roosevelt understood, or even suspected, the great German conspiracy which the Kaiser's hire lings were weaving over the United States is wholly improbable.
The King of Rome has fallen in love with his nurse, and I understand also that there is a conspiracy to steal the throne and sell it.
Meanwhile, Fouche, see that the Bourbons have a conspiracy to be unearthed in time for the Sunday newspapers every week during my absence.
I did not wish to execute the Duc d'Enghien, but he would interfere with Fouche by getting up conspiracies on his own account, when I had given the conspiracy contract to one of my own ministers.
She had returned with authority to organize the conspiracy of the royalists, and to give them the king's sanction.
In the districts where agrarian conspiracy and outrage were most rife, the number of ordinary crimes was very small.
That inhuman chief threatened to return him to his dungeons; and to avoid such a misfortune, Monteith engaged in the conspiracy to bring Lady Helen from the priory to the arms of this monster.
Petty interests extinguished gratitude for general benefits; and by secret meetings, at the heads of which were Athol, Buchan, and March, a conspiracy was formed to overset the power of Wallace.
While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take.
Aside] I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban and his confederates 140 Against my life: the minute of their plot Is almost come.
It is probable that Northumberland suggested his nomination to the King, for the express purpose of interesting a diplomat of such ability in the forthcoming conspiracy to place Jane on the throne.
The second, the conspiracy of the Seymours against the Howards, which ended in the downfall of the great House of Norfolk, whereby Edward Seymour was enabled to proclaim himself Lord Protector of the Realm.
Both agreed to reveal all they knew of the conspiracy to the Council.
This was as it should be, for Robert Dudley was of all Northumberland’s sons, the least guilty, his share in the conspiracy being a very light one.
His position in the Janeite conspiracyhas been severely criticised by more than one historian, and by none more than by Lord Macaulay.
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