Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... society in the Neapolitan do- minions , and in some parts of the Ecclesiastical State , more nearly resembled that which existed in the great monarchies of Europe . But the Governments of Lombardy and Tuscany , through all their ...
... society in the Neapolitan do- minions , and in some parts of the Ecclesiastical State , more nearly resembled that which existed in the great monarchies of Europe . But the Governments of Lombardy and Tuscany , through all their ...
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... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The husbandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The husbandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
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... society by what , in a man , is too commonly considered as an honourable distinction , and , at worst , as a venial error . The consequence is notorious . The moral principle of a woman is frequently more impaired by a single lapse from ...
... society by what , in a man , is too commonly considered as an honourable distinction , and , at worst , as a venial error . The consequence is notorious . The moral principle of a woman is frequently more impaired by a single lapse from ...
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... society ; once , at the moment when Cæsar's splendid villainy achieved its most signal triumph , when he caught in one snare and crushed at one blow all his most formidable rivals ; and again when , exhausted by disease and overwhelmed ...
... society ; once , at the moment when Cæsar's splendid villainy achieved its most signal triumph , when he caught in one snare and crushed at one blow all his most formidable rivals ; and again when , exhausted by disease and overwhelmed ...
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... society . To a modern statesman the form of the Discourses may appear to be puerile . In truth Livy is not an historian on whom implicit reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed considerable means of ...
... society . To a modern statesman the form of the Discourses may appear to be puerile . In truth Livy is not an historian on whom implicit reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed considerable means of ...
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