Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... situations , by fugitives who had escaped from the rage of the barbarians . Such were Venice and Genoa , which preserved their freedom by their obscurity ,. till they became able to preserve it by their power 4 Macaulay's Essays.
... situations , by fugitives who had escaped from the rage of the barbarians . Such were Venice and Genoa , which preserved their freedom by their obscurity ,. till they became able to preserve it by their power 4 Macaulay's Essays.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. till they became able to preserve it by their power . Other cities seem to have retained , under all the changing dynasties of invaders , under Odoacer and Theodoric , Narses and Alboin , the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. till they became able to preserve it by their power . Other cities seem to have retained , under all the changing dynasties of invaders , under Odoacer and Theodoric , Narses and Alboin , the ...
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... became almost an idolatry among the people of Italy . Kings and republics , cardinals and doges , vied with each other in honouring and flattering Petrarch . Embassies from rival States solicited the honour of his instructions . His ...
... became almost an idolatry among the people of Italy . Kings and republics , cardinals and doges , vied with each other in honouring and flattering Petrarch . Embassies from rival States solicited the honour of his instructions . His ...
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... became really so . These tactics maintained their ground for centuries in most parts of Europe . That foot - soldiers could withstand the charge of heavy cavalry was thought utterly impossible , till , towards the close of the fifteenth ...
... became really so . These tactics maintained their ground for centuries in most parts of Europe . That foot - soldiers could withstand the charge of heavy cavalry was thought utterly impossible , till , towards the close of the fifteenth ...
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... became universal , at a time when it was almost unknown in other countries . When war becomes the trade of a separate class , the least dangerous course left to a government is to force that class into a standing army . It is scarcely ...
... became universal , at a time when it was almost unknown in other countries . When war becomes the trade of a separate class , the least dangerous course left to a government is to force that class into a standing army . It is scarcely ...
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