Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... the ridiculous exquisitely keen . This is strange : and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw anything shocking or incongruous in his writings . Machiavelli 3.
... the ridiculous exquisitely keen . This is strange : and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw anything shocking or incongruous in his writings . Machiavelli 3.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. lived saw anything shocking or incongruous in his writings . Abundant proofs remain of the high estimation in which both his works and his person were held by the most respectable among his ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. lived saw anything shocking or incongruous in his writings . Abundant proofs remain of the high estimation in which both his works and his person were held by the most respectable among his ...
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... , 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.
... , 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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... lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they continued to employ the same language , and to cant about the ...
... lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they continued to employ the same language , and to cant about the ...
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... lived long enough to see the commencement of the last struggle for Florentine liberty . Soon after his death monarchy was finally established , not such a monarchy as that of which Cosmo had laid the foundations deep in the institutions ...
... lived long enough to see the commencement of the last struggle for Florentine liberty . Soon after his death monarchy was finally established , not such a monarchy as that of which Cosmo had laid the foundations deep in the institutions ...
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