Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... Church of Rome has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have VOL . II . B coined an epithet for a knave , and out of.
... Church of Rome has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have VOL . II . B coined an epithet for a knave , and out of.
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... opinion is merely a vice . The evil terminates in itself . A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character . The former is a local malady , the latter a constitu- tional taint . When the ...
... opinion is merely a vice . The evil terminates in itself . A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character . The former is a local malady , the latter a constitu- tional taint . When the ...
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... verses with which the Mandragola is interspersed , appear to us to be the most spirited and correct of all that Machiavelli has written in metre . He seems to have entertained the same opinion ; for he has introduced some Machiavelli 21.
... verses with which the Mandragola is interspersed , appear to us to be the most spirited and correct of all that Machiavelli has written in metre . He seems to have entertained the same opinion ; for he has introduced some Machiavelli 21.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. entertained the same opinion ; for he has introduced some of them in other places . The contemporaries of the author were not blind to the merits of this striking piece . It was acted at Florence ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. entertained the same opinion ; for he has introduced some of them in other places . The contemporaries of the author were not blind to the merits of this striking piece . It was acted at Florence ...
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... opinion : but we are certain that his book is most able and interesting . As a commentary on the history of his times , it is invaluable . The ingenuity , the grace , and the perspicuity of the style , and the eloquence and animation of ...
... opinion : but we are certain that his book is most able and interesting . As a commentary on the history of his times , it is invaluable . The ingenuity , the grace , and the perspicuity of the style , and the eloquence and animation of ...
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