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He compared Essex to Pisistratus, who, by pretending to be in imminent danger of assassination, and by exhibiting self-inflicted wounds, succeeded in establishing tyranny at Athens. This was too much for the prisoner to bear. It is painful to go on with this lamentable story.
His father, Xanthippus, defeated the Persian generals at Mycale, while his mother, Agariste, was a descendant of Clisthenes, who drove the sons of Pisistratus out of Athens, put an end to their despotic rule, and established a new constitution admirably calculated to reconcile all parties and save the country.
Nestor's son Pisistratus at once offered his hand to each of them, and seated them on some soft sheepskins that were lying on the sands near his father and his brother Thrasymedes. Then he gave them their portions of the inward meats and poured wine for them into a golden cup, handing it to Minerva first, and saluting her at the same time.
"'Horatio, or I do forget myself." Pisistratus puts his hand on the check-string. I mean "Why, Johnson, my good fellow." Pisistratus. "Johnson! Oh, that's your name, not Peacock." Peacock. "'Johnson, says he, 'my good fellow, and he pulled out his purse. 'Sir, said I, 'if, "exempt from public haunt," I could get something to do when this dross is gone.
After all the pains that Solon had taken to guard the freedom of the Athenians, his system had hardly begun to work before his kinsman Pisistratus, who was also of the line of Codrus, overthrew it.
The time indeed in which he lived is undetermined: but we are certain that he flourished many years before Romulus: for he was at least of as early a date as the elder Lycurgus, the legislator of the Spartans. "But a particular attention to the art, and a greater ability in the practice of it, may be observed in Pisistratus.
Here there was a general confusion of tongues, all present conspiring to bewilder the unfortunate author with their various and discordant counsels how to wind up his story and dispose of his characters. "Silence!" cried Pisistratus, clapping his hands to both ears.
Pisistratus. "Sir, I am very happy to hear so simple, easy, and intelligible an explanation of Uncle Jack's peculiarities; and I only hope that, for the future, the sides of his scalene triangle may never be produced to our rectangular conformations." Mr. Pisistratus. "Perfectly true, sir; but Uncle Jack makes it his business to be always sinking!" Mr.
"No, indeed," interrupted my mother. "My dear, you frighten me." My father sighed, and threw himself back in his chair. My mother took courage and resumed. "Pisistratus is a long name too! Still, one could call him Sisty." "Siste, Viator," muttered my father; "that's trite!" "No, Sisty by itself short. Thank you, my dear."
Sheep are dull things to look at after a bull-hunt and a cattle-feast." Pisistratus. "Every man to his taste in the Bush. One may make one's money more easily and safely, with more adventure and sport, in the bucolic department; but one makes larger profit and quicker fortune, with good luck and good care, in the pastoral, and our object, I take it, is to get back to England as soon as we can."
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