Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked yet ...
... person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked yet ...
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... person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked yet ...
... person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked yet ...
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... person were held by the most respectable among his contemporaries . Clement the Seventh patronised the publication of those very books which the Council of Trent , in the following generation , pronounced unfit for the perusal of ...
... person were held by the most respectable among his contemporaries . Clement the Seventh patronised the publication of those very books which the Council of Trent , in the following generation , pronounced unfit for the perusal of ...
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... person scruples to avow , and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure . Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals , with the fashion of their hats and their coaches ; take some other kind of wickedness under their ...
... person scruples to avow , and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure . Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals , with the fashion of their hats and their coaches ; take some other kind of wickedness under their ...
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... persons around him , seemed to have differed for the better , and whose only fault was , that , having adopted some of ... person , that the inferior artists fail . The fantastic rhapsody of Mercutio , the elaborate declamation of Antony ...
... persons around him , seemed to have differed for the better , and whose only fault was , that , having adopted some of ... person , that the inferior artists fail . The fantastic rhapsody of Mercutio , the elaborate declamation of Antony ...
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