Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... cause of public liberty . It seems inconceivable that the martyr of freedom should have designedly acted as the apostle of tyranny . Several eminent writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect in this unfortunate performance some ...
... cause of public liberty . It seems inconceivable that the martyr of freedom should have designedly acted as the apostle of tyranny . Several eminent writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect in this unfortunate performance some ...
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... cause of public liberty . It seems inconceivable that the martyr of freedom should have designedly acted as the apostle of tyranny . Several eminent writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect in this unfortunate performance some ...
... cause of public liberty . It seems inconceivable that the martyr of freedom should have designedly acted as the apostle of tyranny . Several eminent writers have , therefore , endeavoured to detect in this unfortunate performance some ...
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... cause there was a certain tinge of democracy in the monarchies and aristocracies of Northern Italy . Thus liberty , partially indeed and transiently , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came commerce and empire , science and taste , all ...
... cause there was a certain tinge of democracy in the monarchies and aristocracies of Northern Italy . Thus liberty , partially indeed and transiently , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came commerce and empire , science and taste , all ...
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... cause , the preponderance which the towns acquired in the political system . In a community of hunters or of shepherds , every man easily and necessarily becomes a soldier . His ordinary avocations are perfectly compatible with all the ...
... cause , the preponderance which the towns acquired in the political system . In a community of hunters or of shepherds , every man easily and necessarily becomes a soldier . His ordinary avocations are perfectly compatible with all the ...
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... causes which produced these effects among the Greeks acted still more strongly on the modern Italians . Instead of a power like Sparta , in its nature warlike , they had amongst them an ecclesiastical state , in its nature pacific ...
... causes which produced these effects among the Greeks acted still more strongly on the modern Italians . Instead of a power like Sparta , in its nature warlike , they had amongst them an ecclesiastical state , in its nature pacific ...
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