Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 38
... Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we suppose , knew their own meaning ; and , if we may believe them , their hostility was primarily not to popery , but to tyranny . They did not drive out a tyrant ...
... Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we suppose , knew their own meaning ; and , if we may believe them , their hostility was primarily not to popery , but to tyranny . They did not drive out a tyrant ...
Page 41
... prince should again require a supply , and again repay it with a perjury ? They were compelled to choose whether they would trust a tyrant or conquer him . We think that they chose wisely and nobly . The advocates of Charles , like the ...
... prince should again require a supply , and again repay it with a perjury ? They were compelled to choose whether they would trust a tyrant or conquer him . We think that they chose wisely and nobly . The advocates of Charles , like the ...
Page 67
... Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a con- venient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume ...
... Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a con- venient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume ...
Page 69
... Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation is that which is furnished by the other works of Machiavelli . In all the writings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the research of editors has , in the course of ...
... Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation is that which is furnished by the other works of Machiavelli . In all the writings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the research of editors has , in the course of ...
Page 70
... Prince is so severely censured is more or less dis- cernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dissimulation and treachery had ever struck ...
... Prince is so severely censured is more or less dis- cernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dissimulation and treachery had ever struck ...
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