Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 66
... employed the keys of the church to release himself from the most sacred engagements , and its wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But ...
... employed the keys of the church to release himself from the most sacred engagements , and its wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But ...
Page 68
... employed two hundred factories and thirty thousand workmen . The cloth annually produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred thousand florins ; a sum fully equal , in exchangeable value , to two millions and a half of our money ...
... employed two hundred factories and thirty thousand workmen . The cloth annually produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred thousand florins ; a sum fully equal , in exchangeable value , to two millions and a half of our money ...
Page 69
... employ them . Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems Homer . The following generation produced indeed no second Dante : but it ...
... employ them . Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems Homer . The following generation produced indeed no second Dante : but it ...
Page 74
... employing mercenaries be- came universal , at a time when it was almost unknown in other countries . When war becomes the trade of a separate class , the least dangerous course left to a government is to form that 74 MACHIAVELLI .
... employing mercenaries be- came universal , at a time when it was almost unknown in other countries . When war becomes the trade of a separate class , the least dangerous course left to a government is to form that 74 MACHIAVELLI .
Page 76
... employed , and fighting by the side of his enemies against his associates . The strongest interests and the strongest feelings concurred to mitigate the hostility of those who had lately been brethren in arms , and who might soon be ...
... employed , and fighting by the side of his enemies against his associates . The strongest interests and the strongest feelings concurred to mitigate the hostility of those who had lately been brethren in arms , and who might soon be ...
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