Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 23
... Spain . All their disputes , internal and external , were decided by foreign influence . The contests of opposite factions were carried on , not as formerly in the senate - house or in the market- place , but in the antechambers of ...
... Spain . All their disputes , internal and external , were decided by foreign influence . The contests of opposite factions were carried on , not as formerly in the senate - house or in the market- place , but in the antechambers of ...
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... Spain , the gross licentiousness of the French , indulged in violation of hospitality , of decency , of love itself , the wanton inhumanity which was common to all the invaders , had made them objects of deadly hatred to the inhabitants ...
... Spain , the gross licentiousness of the French , indulged in violation of hospitality , of decency , of love itself , the wanton inhumanity which was common to all the invaders , had made them objects of deadly hatred to the inhabitants ...
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... Spain . Colonna visits Florence on his way from Lombardy to his own domains . He is invited to meet some friends at the house of Cosimo Rucellai , an amiable and accomplished young man , whose early death Machiavelli feelingly deplores ...
... Spain . Colonna visits Florence on his way from Lombardy to his own domains . He is invited to meet some friends at the house of Cosimo Rucellai , an amiable and accomplished young man , whose early death Machiavelli feelingly deplores ...
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... Spain , and gave a hospitable welcome to skilful leeches and mathematicians who , in the schools of Cordova and Granada , had become versed in all the learning of the Arabians . The Greek , still preserving , in the midst of political ...
... Spain , and gave a hospitable welcome to skilful leeches and mathematicians who , in the schools of Cordova and Granada , had become versed in all the learning of the Arabians . The Greek , still preserving , in the midst of political ...
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... Spain was widely different from that of Germany and England . As the national feeling of the Teutonic nations impelled them to throw off the Italian supremacy , so the national feeling of the Italians im- pelled them to resist any ...
... Spain was widely different from that of Germany and England . As the national feeling of the Teutonic nations impelled them to throw off the Italian supremacy , so the national feeling of the Italians im- pelled them to resist any ...
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