Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display ...
... scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display ...
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... scarcely write in cipher for the direction of his most confidential spy ; the next seems to be extracted from a theme composed by an ardent schoolboy on the death of Leonidas . An act of dexterous perfidy , and an act of patriotic self ...
... scarcely write in cipher for the direction of his most confidential spy ; the next seems to be extracted from a theme composed by an ardent schoolboy on the death of Leonidas . An act of dexterous perfidy , and an act of patriotic self ...
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... scarcely persuade ourselves that we are reading of times in which the annals of England and France present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and the ...
... scarcely persuade ourselves that we are reading of times in which the annals of England and France present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and the ...
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... scarcely possible to persuade or compel the Athenians to enlist for foreign service . The laws of Lycurgus prohibited trade and manufactures . The Spartans , therefore , continued to form a national force long after their neighbours had ...
... scarcely possible to persuade or compel the Athenians to enlist for foreign service . The laws of Lycurgus prohibited trade and manufactures . The Spartans , therefore , continued to form a national force long after their neighbours had ...
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... scarcely any person scruples to avow , and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure . Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals , with the fashion of their hats and their coaches ; take some other kind of ...
... scarcely any person scruples to avow , and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure . Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals , with the fashion of their hats and their coaches ; take some other kind of ...
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