Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1907 |
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... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The husbandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The husbandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
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... society by what , in a man , is too commonly considered as an honourable distinction , and , at worst , as a venial error . The consequence is notorious . The moral principle of a woman is frequently more impaired by a single lapse from ...
... society by what , in a man , is too commonly considered as an honourable distinction , and , at worst , as a venial error . The consequence is notorious . The moral principle of a woman is frequently more impaired by a single lapse from ...
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... society , and has very dexterously connected it with the history of his own times . The relation of the trick put on the doting old lover is exquisitely humorous . It is far superior to the corresponding passage in the Latin comedy ...
... society , and has very dexterously connected it with the history of his own times . The relation of the trick put on the doting old lover is exquisitely humorous . It is far superior to the corresponding passage in the Latin comedy ...
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... societies and laws exist only for the purpose of increasing the sum of private happiness , is not recognised with ... society in the little commonwealths of Greece , the close connection and mutual dependence of the citizens , and the ...
... societies and laws exist only for the purpose of increasing the sum of private happiness , is not recognised with ... society in the little commonwealths of Greece , the close connection and mutual dependence of the citizens , and the ...
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... society to which he belonged , a partaker in its wealth and its poverty , in its glory and its shame . In the age of Machiavelli this was peculiarly the case . Public events had produced an immense sum of misery to private citizens ...
... society to which he belonged , a partaker in its wealth and its poverty , in its glory and its shame . In the age of Machiavelli this was peculiarly the case . Public events had produced an immense sum of misery to private citizens ...
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