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His most attached councillors turned away with shame and anguish from his false and hollow policy , plot intertwined with plot , mine sprung beneath mine , agents disowned , promises evaded , one pledge given in private , another in ...
His most attached councillors turned away with shame and anguish from his false and hollow policy , plot intertwined with plot , mine sprung beneath mine , agents disowned , promises evaded , one pledge given in private , another in ...
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The whole was made up of extravagant transformations and burlesque contrasts ; Atheists turned Puritans ; Puritans turned Atheists ; republicans defending the divine right of kings ; prostitute courtiers clamouring for the liberties of ...
The whole was made up of extravagant transformations and burlesque contrasts ; Atheists turned Puritans ; Puritans turned Atheists ; republicans defending the divine right of kings ; prostitute courtiers clamouring for the liberties of ...
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He condemned the prevailing madness in public , and turned a considerable sum by taking advantage of it in private . When the crash came , when ten thousand families were reduced to beggary in a day , when the people , in the frenzy of ...
He condemned the prevailing madness in public , and turned a considerable sum by taking advantage of it in private . When the crash came , when ten thousand families were reduced to beggary in a day , when the people , in the frenzy of ...
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Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
MACHIAVELLI | 38 |
WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION | 73 |
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