Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 40
... wealth , made them happy in love and victorious in war . Such a spirit is Liberty . At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile . She grovels , she hisses , she stings . But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ...
... wealth , made them happy in love and victorious in war . Such a spirit is Liberty . At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile . She grovels , she hisses , she stings . But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ...
Page 64
... at least comparative security and repose . Even in those regions where the sanguinary Lombards had fixed their monarchy , there was incomparably more of wealth , of information , of physical comfort , and of social 64 MACHIAVELLI .
... at least comparative security and repose . Even in those regions where the sanguinary Lombards had fixed their monarchy , there was incomparably more of wealth , of information , of physical comfort , and of social 64 MACHIAVELLI .
Page 66
... wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual ...
... wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual ...
Page 67
... wealth , dominion , and knowledge . The moral and the geographical position of those commonwealths enabled them to profit alike by the barbarism of the West and by the civilisation of the East . Italian ships covered every sea 5 ...
... wealth , dominion , and knowledge . The moral and the geographical position of those commonwealths enabled them to profit alike by the barbarism of the West and by the civilisation of the East . Italian ships covered every sea 5 ...
Page 68
... wealth and civilisation as some parts of Italy had at- tained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be collected . Hence posterity is too often deceived by ...
... wealth and civilisation as some parts of Italy had at- tained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be collected . Hence posterity is too often deceived by ...
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