Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . Another remarks that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to the custom ...
... writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . Another remarks that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to the custom ...
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... writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ; and their combination ...
... writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ; and their combination ...
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... writer . Having now , we hope , in some degree cleared the personal character of Machiavelli , we come to the consideration of his works . As a poet he is not entitled to a high place ; but his comedies deserve attention . The ...
... writer . Having now , we hope , in some degree cleared the personal character of Machiavelli , we come to the consideration of his works . As a poet he is not entitled to a high place ; but his comedies deserve attention . The ...
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... writer are put into the mouth of Fabrizio Colonna , a powerful nobleman of the Ecclesiastical State , and an officer of distinguished merit in the service of the King of Spain . Colonna visits Florence on his way from Lombardy to his ...
... writer are put into the mouth of Fabrizio Colonna , a powerful nobleman of the Ecclesiastical State , and an officer of distinguished merit in the service of the King of Spain . Colonna visits Florence on his way from Lombardy to his ...
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... writer far more than the doctrines which have rendered the name of the work odious in later times . It was considered as an indication of political apostasy . The fact however seems to have been that Machi- avelli , despairing of the ...
... writer far more than the doctrines which have rendered the name of the work odious in later times . It was considered as an indication of political apostasy . The fact however seems to have been that Machi- avelli , despairing of the ...
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