Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a convenient 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 convenient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume ...
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... trick , Tho ' he gave his name to our old Nick . Hudibras , Part III . Canto i . But , we believe , there is a schism on this subject among the antiquarians . in The Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation 2 Macaulay's Essays.
... trick , Tho ' he gave his name to our old Nick . Hudibras , Part III . Canto i . But , we believe , there is a schism on this subject among the antiquarians . in The Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation 2 Macaulay's Essays.
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... Prince is so severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dis- simulation and treachery had ever struck ...
... Prince is so severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dis- simulation and treachery had ever struck ...
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... Prince to a patron who bore the unpopular name of Medici . But to those immoral doctrines which have since called forth such severe reprehensions no exception appears to have been taken . The cry against them was first raised beyond the ...
... Prince to a patron who bore the unpopular name of Medici . But to those immoral doctrines which have since called forth such severe reprehensions no exception appears to have been taken . The cry against them was first raised beyond the ...
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... prince as our Henry the Fifth would have been the idol of the North . The follies of his youth , the selfish ambition of his manhood , the Lollards roasted at slow fires , the prisoners massacred on the field of battle , the expiring ...
... prince as our Henry the Fifth would have been the idol of the North . The follies of his youth , the selfish ambition of his manhood , the Lollards roasted at slow fires , the prisoners massacred on the field of battle , the expiring ...
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