Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... thousand florins ; a sum which , allowing for the depreciation of the precious metals , was at least equivalent to six hundred thousand pounds sterling ; a larger sum than England and Ireland , two centuries ago , yielded annually to ...
... thousand florins ; a sum which , allowing for the depreciation of the precious metals , was at least equivalent to six hundred thousand pounds sterling ; a larger sum than England and Ireland , two centuries ago , yielded annually to ...
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... Thousands of prisoners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost . A pitched battle seems to have been really less dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the military character . Men grew old ...
... Thousands of prisoners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost . A pitched battle seems to have been really less dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the military character . Men grew old ...
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... a century ago , lived by taking blackmail from his neighbours , committed the same crime for which Wild was accompanied to Tyburn by the huzzas of two hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt Machiavelli 15.
... a century ago , lived by taking blackmail from his neighbours , committed the same crime for which Wild was accompanied to Tyburn by the huzzas of two hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt Machiavelli 15.
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... thousand other questions of the same description , are in them- selves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse us , but the decision leaves us no wiser . He alone reads history aright who , observing how powerfully circumstances influence ...
... thousand other questions of the same description , are in them- selves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse us , but the decision leaves us no wiser . He alone reads history aright who , observing how powerfully circumstances influence ...
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... thousand Italian warriors sprung to arms at the rumour of a Gallic invasion . He breathes all the spirit of those intrepid and haughty senators who forgot the dearest ties of nature in the claims of public duty , who looked with disdain ...
... thousand Italian warriors sprung to arms at the rumour of a Gallic invasion . He breathes all the spirit of those intrepid and haughty senators who forgot the dearest ties of nature in the claims of public duty , who looked with disdain ...
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