Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a convenient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . Another remarks that ...
... never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a convenient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . Another remarks that ...
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... never been wholly neglected in Italy . But Petrarch introduced a more profound , liberal , and elegant scholarship , and communicated to his countrymen that enthusiasm for the literature , the history , and the antiquities of Rome ...
... never been wholly neglected in Italy . But Petrarch introduced a more profound , liberal , and elegant scholarship , and communicated to his countrymen that enthusiasm for the literature , the history , and the antiquities of Rome ...
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... never hesitates at an oath when he wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is inclined to betray . His cruelties spring , not from the heat of blood , or the insanity of uncontrolled power , but from deep and cool ...
... never hesitates at an oath when he wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is inclined to betray . His cruelties spring , not from the heat of blood , or the insanity of uncontrolled power , but from deep and cool ...
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... never advances a false opinion because it is new or splendid , because he can clothe it in a happy phrase , or defend it by an ingenious sophism . His errors are at once explained by a reference to the circumstances in which he was ...
... never advances a false opinion because it is new or splendid , because he can clothe it in a happy phrase , or defend it by an ingenious sophism . His errors are at once explained by a reference to the circumstances in which he was ...
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... never known before . All ranks , all varieties of character , joined the ranks of the innovators . Sovereigns impatient to appropriate to themselves the prerogatives of the Pope , nobles desirous to share the plunder of abbeys , suitors ...
... never known before . All ranks , all varieties of character , joined the ranks of the innovators . Sovereigns impatient to appropriate to themselves the prerogatives of the Pope , nobles desirous to share the plunder of abbeys , suitors ...
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