Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation The Athenians knowing Aristides the Philosopher, to be a man indued with singular wisedome and vertue, made choyse of him to have conference with Themystocles, and thereupon to yeelde his opinion to the Citizens concerning the sayd devise: which was, that they might set on fire the Navie of their enemies, with great facilitie, as he had layde the plot: Aristides made relation to the Citizens, that the stratageme devised by Themystocles was a profitable practise for the common wealth but it was dishonest. (6.05)
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation And upon mature deliberation I found the action to be honest and profitable, and therefore allowable by the opinion of Aristides if he were now alive: which being by me herein sufficiently prooved, (as by Gods grace I purpose to doe) I doubt not but that all good mindes will endevour themselves to be assistants to this so commendable an enterprise, by the valiant and worthy Gentlemen our Countrey men already attempted and undertaken. (0.92)
Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter J, entry 16096 physician and scholar; B.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1713; librarian to Jeremy Collier; M.D. Rheims, 1728; practised at Stratford-le-Bow; edited Roger Bacon's ‘Opus Majus,’ 1733, and the works of Aristides, 1722 and 1730; published lives of Mary Queen of Scots and Robert, earl of Leicester. [xxix. (3.27)
A candid appeal to the freemen of Maryland on the projected removal of their seat of government spage 2 This brings me to the second question proposed examination—some of the arguments which I shall use have been suggested by an address of Aristides to the citizens of Maryland, in the year 1786, the production of the late Chancellor Hanson, a name that will always be revered by those who knew and admired his many virtues, his finished urbanity, and his superior wisdom and knowledge. (4.35)