Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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... Italy . The earliest assailant , as far as we are aware , was a countryman of our own , Cardinal Pole . The author of the Anti - Machiavelli was a French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians ...
... Italy . The earliest assailant , as far as we are aware , was a countryman of our own , Cardinal Pole . The author of the Anti - Machiavelli was a French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians ...
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... Italy . Thus liberty , partially indeed and transiently , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came commerce and empire , science and taste , all the comforts and all the ornaments of life . The Crusades , from which the inhabitants of ...
... Italy . Thus liberty , partially indeed and transiently , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came commerce and empire , science and taste , all the comforts and all the ornaments of life . The Crusades , from which the inhabitants of ...
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... Italy did not , like those of Greece , swarm with thousands of these household enemies . Lastly , the mode in which military operations were conducted during the prosperous times of Italy was peculiarly unfavourable to the formation of ...
... Italy did not , like those of Greece , swarm with thousands of these household enemies . Lastly , the mode in which military operations were conducted during the prosperous times of Italy was peculiarly unfavourable to the formation of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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