Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have VOL . II . B The coined an epithet for a knave , and out of MACHIAVELLI.
... has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have VOL . II . B The coined an epithet for a knave , and out of MACHIAVELLI.
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... things were still more remarkable . Among the rude nations which lay beyond the Alps , valour was absolutely indispensable . Without it none could be eminent ; few could be secure . Cowardice was , therefore , naturally considered as ...
... things were still more remarkable . Among the rude nations which lay beyond the Alps , valour was absolutely indispensable . Without it none could be eminent ; few could be secure . Cowardice was , therefore , naturally considered as ...
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... things clever and judicious . The conversations are reported in a spirited and characteristic manner . We find our- selves introduced into the presence of the men who , during twenty eventful years , swayed the destinies of Europe ...
... things clever and judicious . The conversations are reported in a spirited and characteristic manner . We find our- selves introduced into the presence of the men who , during twenty eventful years , swayed the destinies of Europe ...
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... things from which they had sprung , and that the great men whose talents gave lustre to that melancholy period had been formed under the influence of happier days , and would leave no successors behind them . The times which shine with ...
... things from which they had sprung , and that the great men whose talents gave lustre to that melancholy period had been formed under the influence of happier days , and would leave no successors behind them . The times which shine with ...
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... things which concern this life and this world , man constantly becomes wiser and wiser . But it is no less true that , as respects a higher power and a future state , man , in the language of Goethe's scoffing fiend , " bleibt stets von ...
... things which concern this life and this world , man constantly becomes wiser and wiser . But it is no less true that , as respects a higher power and a future state , man , in the language of Goethe's scoffing fiend , " bleibt stets von ...
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