Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... Italy , who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys . He chose the history . But the war of Pisa was too much for him . He changed his mind , and I went to the oar . Guicciardini , though certainly not the ...
... Italy , who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys . He chose the history . But the war of Pisa was too much for him . He changed his mind , and I went to the oar . Guicciardini , though certainly not the ...
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... Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own native government . So , in the sixteenth century , the fury of theological factions suspended all national animosities and jealousies . The Spaniards ...
... Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own native government . So , in the sixteenth century , the fury of theological factions suspended all national animosities and jealousies . The Spaniards ...
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... Italy , were as completely dependent on him as the Nizam and the Rajah of Berar now are on the East India Company . In Asia , the King of Spain was master of the Philippines and of all those rich settlements which the Portuguese had ...
... Italy , were as completely dependent on him as the Nizam and the Rajah of Berar now are on the East India Company . In Asia , the King of Spain was master of the Philippines and of all those rich settlements which the Portuguese had ...
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... Italy was not more decidedly the land of the fine arts , Germany was not more decidedly the land of bold theological speculation , than Spain was the land of statesmen and of soldiers . The cha- racter which Virgil has ascribed to his ...
... Italy was not more decidedly the land of the fine arts , Germany was not more decidedly the land of bold theological speculation , than Spain was the land of statesmen and of soldiers . The cha- racter which Virgil has ascribed to his ...
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... Italian what the Roman , in the days of the greatness of Rome , was to the Greek . The conqueror had less ingenuity , less taste , less delicacy of perception than the con- quered ; but far more pride , firmness , and courage , a more ...
... Italian what the Roman , in the days of the greatness of Rome , was to the Greek . The conqueror had less ingenuity , less taste , less delicacy of perception than the con- quered ; but far more pride , firmness , and courage , a more ...
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