 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Classical dictionaries - 1812 - 500 pages
...Whatever causes were pleaded before them, were to be divested of nil oratory and fine spcaking.lcst eloquence should charm their ears and corrupt their judgment. Hence arose the most ji.st and most impartial decision1*. Their authority continued in its original state till Pericles,... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1820 - 892 pages
...contracting pollution by conversing in the same house with men who had been guilty of shedding innocent Mood. They always heard causes and passed sentence in the...inviolable, and the plaintiff and defendant were equally convinced of its justice. The Areopagites generally sat on the 27th, 28th, and 29th days of every month.... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 840 pages
...them, were to be devested of all oratory and fine speaking, lest eloquence should charm their eats, and corrupt their judgment. Hence arose the most just...inviolable, and the plaintiff and defendant were equally convinced of it« justice. The Areopagites generally sat on the 27th, 28lb, and ¿9th day of every... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1833 - 822 pages
...plaintiff or of the defendant by seeing them. Whatever causes were pleaded before them were to lie divested of all oratory and fine speaking, lest eloquence should charm their ears and corrupt theirjudgment. Hencearosc the most justand most impartial decisions, and their sentence was deemed... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1838 - 818 pages
...sentence in the night, that they might not be prepossessed in favour of the plaintiff or of the delendant by seeing them. Whatever causes were pleaded before...their judgment. Hence arose the most just and most impariial decisions, and their sentence was deemed sacred and inviolable, and [he plaintiff and defendant... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1839 - 814 pages
...always heard causes and passed sentence in tLe night, that they might n.ot be prepossessed in favour of the plaintiff or of the defendant by seeing them....inviolable, and the plaintiff and defendant were equally convinced of its justice. The Areopagiles generally sat on the 27th, 28th, and 29th day of every month.... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1839 - 810 pages
...sentence in the night, that they might not be prepossessed in favour of the pla'intirTor of the delendant by seeing them. Whatever causes were pleaded before...inviolable, and the plaintiff and defendant were equally convinced of its justice. The Areopagiics generally sat on the 27th, 28th, and 29ih day of every month.... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1841 - 800 pages
...and passed sentence in the night, that they might not he prepossessed in favour of the plaintiff or defendant by seeing them. Whatever causes were pleaded...inviolable, and the plaintiff and defendant were equally convinced of its justice. The Areopagites generally sat on the 27th, 28th, and 29th day of every month.... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...the first who was tried there for the murder of Hallirhotius, who had violated his daughter Alcippa. Whatever causes were pleaded before them, were to...corrupt their judgment. Hence arose the most just and impartial decisions. ARGENTARÍA, BATTLE OF. One of the most renowned in its times, fought in Alsace,... | |
 | John Lempriere - 1842 - 1150 pages
...and passed sentence in the night, that they might not be prepossessed in favor of the plaintiff or defendant by seeing them ; whatever causes were pleaded before them, were to be divested of all fine speaking, lest eloquence charming their ears should corrupt their judgment ; hence arose impartial... | |
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... defendant by seeing them. Whatever causes were pleaded before them, were to be divested of all oratory and fine speaking lest eloquence should charm their ears and corrupt their judgment. Hence arose the most just and most impartial decisions, and... 
