Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... importance which the population of the towns , at a very early period , began to acquire . Some cities had been founded in wild and remote situations , by fugitives who had escaped from the rage of the barbarians . Such were Venice and ...
... importance which the population of the towns , at a very early period , began to acquire . Some cities had been founded in wild and remote situations , by fugitives who had escaped from the rage of the barbarians . Such were Venice and ...
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... important political transaction could have done . To collect books and antiques , to found professorships , to patronise men of learning , became almost universal fashions among the great . The spirit of literary research allied itself ...
... important political transaction could have done . To collect books and antiques , to found professorships , to patronise men of learning , became almost universal fashions among the great . The spirit of literary research allied itself ...
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... . Throughout Europe this most important branch of war became a separate profession . Beyond the Alps , indeed , though a profession , it was not generally a trade . It was the duty and the amusement of a large class Machiavelli II.
... . Throughout Europe this most important branch of war became a separate profession . Beyond the Alps , indeed , though a profession , it was not generally a trade . It was the duty and the amusement of a large class Machiavelli II.
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... important reflections than that of the Tuscan and Lombard commonwealths . The character of the Italian statesman seems , at first sight , a collection of contradictions , a phantom as monstrous as the portress of hell in Milton , half ...
... important reflections than that of the Tuscan and Lombard commonwealths . The character of the Italian statesman seems , at first sight , a collection of contradictions , a phantom as monstrous as the portress of hell in Milton , half ...
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... importance , he acquitted himself with great dexterity . His despatches form one of the most amusing and instructive ... important occasions Machiavelli was admitted to his society ; once , at the moment when Cæsar's splendid villainy ...
... importance , he acquitted himself with great dexterity . His despatches form one of the most amusing and instructive ... important occasions Machiavelli was admitted to his society ; once , at the moment when Cæsar's splendid villainy ...
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