Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 41
... correct each other . The scattered elements of truth cease to contend , and begin to coalesce . And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos . Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as ...
... correct each other . The scattered elements of truth cease to contend , and begin to coalesce . And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos . Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as ...
Page 86
... correct and vigorous delineation of human nature , it produces interest without a pleasing or skil- ful plot , and laughter without the least ambition of wit . The lover , not a very delicate or generous lover , and his adviser the ...
... correct and vigorous delineation of human nature , it produces interest without a pleasing or skil- ful plot , and laughter without the least ambition of wit . The lover , not a very delicate or generous lover , and his adviser the ...
Page 88
... correct of all that Machiavelli has written in metre . He seems to have 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 ...
... correct of all that Machiavelli has written in metre . He seems to have 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 ...
Page 99
... his mind less comprehensive ; but it had served to correct his specula- tions , and to impart to them that vivid and practical character which so widely distinguishes them from the vague theories of 7 * MACHIAVELLI . 99.
... his mind less comprehensive ; but it had served to correct his specula- tions , and to impart to them that vivid and practical character which so widely distinguishes them from the vague theories of 7 * MACHIAVELLI . 99.
Page 106
... vivid and a more faithful impression of the national character and manners than from more correct accounts . The truth is , that the book belongs rather to ancient than to modern literature . It is in the style , not 106 MACHIAVELLI .
... vivid and a more faithful impression of the national character and manners than from more correct accounts . The truth is , that the book belongs rather to ancient than to modern literature . It is in the style , not 106 MACHIAVELLI .
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