Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... respects , the best commentary on the history of Italy . Five hundred years before the Christian era , the citizens of the republics round the Ægean Sea formed perhaps the finest militia that ever existed . As wealth and refinement ...
... respects , the best commentary on the history of Italy . Five hundred years before the Christian era , the citizens of the republics round the Ægean Sea formed perhaps the finest militia that ever existed . As wealth and refinement ...
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... respect . The Italians regarded with corresponding lenity those crimes which require self - command , address , quick observation , fertile invention , and profound knowledge of human nature . Such a prince as our Henry the Fifth would ...
... respect . The Italians regarded with corresponding lenity those crimes which require self - command , address , quick observation , fertile invention , and profound knowledge of human nature . Such a prince as our Henry the Fifth would ...
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... respect would have mingled with their disapprobation . The readiness of the traitor's wit , the clear- ness of his judgment , the skill with which he penetrates the dispositions of others and conceals his own , would have ensured to him ...
... respect would have mingled with their disapprobation . The readiness of the traitor's wit , the clear- ness of his judgment , the skill with which he penetrates the dispositions of others and conceals his own , would have ensured to him ...
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... respect no history suggests more 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 ...
... respect no history suggests more 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 ...
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... respects , favourable to the experiment . The system of military tactics had undergone a great revolution . The cavalry was no longer considered as forming the strength of an army . The hours which a citizen could spare from his ...
... respects , favourable to the experiment . The system of military tactics had undergone a great revolution . The cavalry was no longer considered as forming the strength of an army . The hours which a citizen could spare from his ...
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