Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 7
... produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred thousand florins ; a sum fully equal in exchangeable value to two millions and a half of our money . Four hundred thousand florins were annually coined . Eighty banks conducted the ...
... produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred thousand florins ; a sum fully equal in exchangeable value to two millions and a half of our money . Four hundred thousand florins were annually coined . Eighty banks conducted the ...
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... produced indeed no second Dante : but it was eminently distinguished by general intellectual activity . The study of the Latin writers had never been wholly neglected in Italy . But Petrarch introduced a more profound , liberal , and ...
... produced indeed no second Dante : but it was eminently distinguished by general intellectual activity . The study of the Latin writers had never been wholly neglected in Italy . But Petrarch introduced a more profound , liberal , and ...
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... 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 . Where there are ...
... 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 . Where there are ...
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... produced an immense sum of misery to private citizens . The Northern invaders had brought want to their boards , infamy to their beds , fire to their roofs , and the knife to their throats . It was natural that a man who lived in times ...
... produced an immense sum of misery to private citizens . The Northern invaders had brought want to their boards , infamy to their beds , fire to their roofs , and the knife to their throats . It was natural that a man who lived in times ...
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... produces affectation in the manner of a writer , is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings . The judicious and candid mind of Machiavelli shows itself in his luminous , manly , and polished language . The style of Mon- tesquieu ...
... produces affectation in the manner of a writer , is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings . The judicious and candid mind of Machiavelli shows itself in his luminous , manly , and polished language . The style of Mon- tesquieu ...
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