Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... moral principle for which The Prince is so severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dis- simulation ...
... moral principle for which The Prince is so severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dis- simulation ...
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... moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explana- tion of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As this is a subject which suggests many interesting ...
... moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explana- tion of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As this is a subject which suggests many interesting ...
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... moral for a political servitude , and to exalt the Popes at the expense of the Cæsars . Happily the public mind of Italy had long contained the seeds of free opinions , which were now rapidly developed by the genial influence of free ...
... moral for a political servitude , and to exalt the Popes at the expense of the Cæsars . Happily the public mind of Italy had long contained the seeds of free opinions , which were now rapidly developed by the genial influence of free ...
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... other countries gained nothing but relics and wounds , brought to the rising common- wealths of the Adriatic and Tyrrhene seas a large increase of wealth , dominion , and knowledge . The moral and 6 Macaulay's Essays.
... other countries gained nothing but relics and wounds , brought to the rising common- wealths of the Adriatic and Tyrrhene seas a large increase of wealth , dominion , and knowledge . The moral and 6 Macaulay's Essays.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. wealth , dominion , and knowledge . The moral and geographical position of those commonwealths enabled them to profit alike by the barbarism of the West and by the civilisation of the East ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. wealth , dominion , and knowledge . The moral and geographical position of those commonwealths enabled them to profit alike by the barbarism of the West and by the civilisation of the East ...
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