Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... present instance M. PĂ©rier is merely a Richard Roe , who will not be mentioned in any subsequent stage of the pro- ceedings , and whose name is used for the sole purpose of bringing Machiavelli into court . We doubt whether any name in ...
... present instance M. PĂ©rier is merely a Richard Roe , who will not be mentioned in any subsequent stage of the pro- ceedings , and whose name is used for the sole purpose of bringing Machiavelli into court . We doubt whether any name in ...
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... present instance , several circumstances have led even superficial observers to question the justice of the vulgar decision . It is notorious that Machiavelli was , through life , a zealous republican . In the same year in which he ...
... present instance , several circumstances have led even superficial observers to question the justice of the vulgar decision . It is notorious that Machiavelli was , through life , a zealous republican . In the same year in which he ...
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... present time reached so high a point of wealth and civilisation as some parts of Italy had attained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be collected ...
... present time reached so high a point of wealth and civilisation as some parts of Italy had attained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be collected ...
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... present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and the sufferings of a degraded peasantry , it is delightful to turn to the opulent and enlightened States ...
... present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and the sufferings of a degraded peasantry , it is delightful to turn to the opulent and enlightened States ...
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... present instance , the lot has fallen on Machiavelli , a man whose public conduct was upright and honourable , whose views of morality , where they differed from those of the persons around him , seemed to have differed for the better ...
... present instance , the lot has fallen on Machiavelli , a man whose public conduct was upright and honourable , whose views of morality , where they differed from those of the persons around him , seemed to have differed for the better ...
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