Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... Christian name a synonym for the Devil.1 It is indeed scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so ...
... Christian name a synonym for the Devil.1 It is indeed scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so ...
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... Christians . Some members of the democratical party censured the Secretary for dedicating The Prince to a patron who bore the unpopular name of Medici . But to those immoral doctrines which have since called forth such severe ...
... Christians . Some members of the democratical party censured the Secretary for dedicating The Prince to a patron who bore the unpopular name of Medici . But to those immoral doctrines which have since called forth such severe ...
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... Christian ought to appeal . The Italians were acquainted with all the follies of his youth , and with all the dishonest arts by which he had attained power . They knew how often he had employed the keys of the Church to release himself ...
... Christian ought to appeal . The Italians were acquainted with all the follies of his youth , and with all the dishonest arts by which he had attained power . They knew how often he had employed the keys of the Church to release himself ...
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... Five hundred years before the Christian era , the citizens of the republics round the Ægean Sea formed perhaps the finest militia that ever existed . As wealth and refinement advanced , the system 10 . Macaulay's Essays.
... Five hundred years before the Christian era , the citizens of the republics round the Ægean Sea formed perhaps the finest militia that ever existed . As wealth and refinement advanced , the system 10 . Macaulay's Essays.
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... Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage high- landers of Ætolia , who were some generations behind their countrymen in civilisation and intelligence . All the causes which produced these effects among the ...
... Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage high- landers of Ætolia , who were some generations behind their countrymen in civilisation and intelligence . All the causes which produced these effects among the ...
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