Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... question the justice of the vulgar decision . It is notorious that Machiavelli was , through life , a zealous republican . In the same year in which he composed his manual of King - craft , he suffered imprison- ment and torture in the ...
... question the justice of the vulgar decision . It is notorious that Machiavelli was , through life , a zealous republican . In the same year in which he composed his manual of King - craft , he suffered imprison- ment and torture in the ...
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... question the justice of the vulgar decision . It is notorious that Machiavelli was , through life , a zealous republican . In the same year in which he composed his manual of King - craft , he suffered imprison- ment and torture in the ...
... question the justice of the vulgar decision . It is notorious that Machiavelli was , through life , a zealous republican . In the same year in which he composed his manual of King - craft , he suffered imprison- ment and torture in the ...
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... questions of the same description , are in them- selves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse us , but the decision leaves us no wiser . He alone reads history aright who , observing how powerfully circumstances influence the feelings and ...
... questions of the same description , are in them- selves unimportant . The inquiry may amuse us , but the decision leaves us no wiser . He alone reads history aright who , observing how powerfully circumstances influence the feelings and ...
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... question ; and on this question Professor Ranke has thrown far more light than any other person who has written on it . There is not , and there never was on this earth , a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the ...
... question ; and on this question Professor Ranke has thrown far more light than any other person who has written on it . There is not , and there never was on this earth , a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the ...
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... question , the question , what becomes of man after death , we do not see that a highly educated European , left to his unassisted reason , is more likely to be in the right than a Blackfoot Indian . Not a single one of the many ...
... question , the question , what becomes of man after death , we do not see that a highly educated European , left to his unassisted reason , is more likely to be in the right than a Blackfoot Indian . Not a single one of the many ...
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