Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 7
... that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of intellect had been turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries , still retaining the traces of old cultivation , Machiavelli ...
... that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of intellect had been turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries , still retaining the traces of old cultivation , Machiavelli ...
Page 8
... turned their attention to the more sublime and graceful models of Greece . From this time , the admiration of learning and genius became almost an idolatry among the people of Italy . Kings and republics , cardinals and doges , vied ...
... turned their attention to the more sublime and graceful models of Greece . From this time , the admiration of learning and genius became almost an idolatry among the people of Italy . Kings and republics , cardinals and doges , vied ...
Page 12
... turning his arms against his late masters . The soldier was altogether disjoined from the citizen and from the subject . The natural consequences followed . Left to the conduct of men who neither loved those whom they defended , nor ...
... turning his arms against his late masters . The soldier was altogether disjoined from the citizen and from the subject . The natural consequences followed . Left to the conduct of men who neither loved those whom they defended , nor ...
Page 26
... turned with loathing from the atrocity of the strangers who seemed to love blood for its own sake , who , not content with subjugating , were impatient to destroy , who found a fiendish pleasure in razing magnificent cities , cutting ...
... turned with loathing from the atrocity of the strangers who seemed to love blood for its own sake , who , not content with subjugating , were impatient to destroy , who found a fiendish pleasure in razing magnificent cities , cutting ...
Page 43
... turned Catholics from sincere conviction . Johnson , incredulous on all other points , was a ready believer in miracles and apparitions . He would not believe in Ossian ; but he was willing to believe in the second sight . He would not ...
... turned Catholics from sincere conviction . Johnson , incredulous on all other points , was a ready believer in miracles and apparitions . He would not believe in Ossian ; but he was willing to believe in the second sight . He would not ...
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