Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked yet not ashamed , such cool , judicious , scientific atrocity ...
... Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked yet not ashamed , such cool , judicious , scientific atrocity ...
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... Italy . The earliest assailant , as far as we are aware , was a countryman of our own , Cardinal Pole . author of the Anti - Machiavelli was a French Protestant . The It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians ...
... Italy . The earliest assailant , as far as we are aware , was a countryman of our own , Cardinal Pole . author of the Anti - Machiavelli was a French Protestant . The It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians ...
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... Italy had long contained the seeds of free opinions , which were now rapidly developed by the genial influence of ... Italians were acquainted with all the follies of his youth , and with all the dishonest arts by which he had attained ...
... Italy had long contained the seeds of free opinions , which were now rapidly developed by the genial influence of ... Italians were acquainted with all the follies of his youth , and with all the dishonest arts by which he had attained ...
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... Italy , the feudal nobles were reduced to comparative insignificance . In some districts they took shelter under the ... Italy . Thus liberty , partially indeed and transiently , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came commerce and ...
... Italy , the feudal nobles were reduced to comparative insignificance . In some districts they took shelter under the ... Italy . Thus liberty , partially indeed and transiently , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came commerce and ...
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... Italian ships covered every sea . Italian factories rose on every shore . The tables of Italian money - changers were ... Italy had attained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real ...
... Italian ships covered every sea . Italian factories rose on every shore . The tables of Italian money - changers were ... Italy had attained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real ...
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