Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... doubt whether any name in literary history be so generally odious as that of the man whose character and writings we now propose to consider . The terms in which he is commonly described would seem to import that he was the Tempter ...
... doubt whether any name in literary history be so generally odious as that of the man whose character and writings we now propose to consider . The terms in which he is commonly described would seem to import that he was the Tempter ...
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... doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dis- simulation and treachery had ever struck him as discreditable . After this , it may seem ridiculous to ...
... doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dis- simulation and treachery had ever struck him as discreditable . After this , it may seem ridiculous to ...
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... doubt whether any country of Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth and civilisation as some parts of Italy had attained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details ...
... doubt whether any country of Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth and civilisation as some parts of Italy had attained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details ...
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... who , 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.
... who , 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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... doubt , mark a man of our age and country as utterly worthless and abandoned . But it by no means follows that a similar judgment would be just in the case of an Italian of the middle ages . On the contrary , we frequently find those ...
... doubt , mark a man of our age and country as utterly worthless and abandoned . But it by no means follows that a similar judgment would be just in the case of an Italian of the middle ages . On the contrary , we frequently find those ...
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