Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... Italy . But he did not feel for it the same veneration which be entertained for the remains of Athenian and Roman poetry , conse- crated by so many lofty and endearing recollections . The faults , moreover , of his Italian predecessors ...
... Italy . But he did not feel for it the same veneration which be entertained for the remains of Athenian and Roman poetry , conse- crated by so many lofty and endearing recollections . The faults , moreover , of his Italian predecessors ...
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... Italian , a strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very ...
... Italian , a strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very ...
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... Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a dis- play of wickedness , naked yet not ashamed , such cool , judicious , scientific atrocity ...
... Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a dis- play of wickedness , naked yet not ashamed , such cool , judicious , scientific atrocity ...
Pagina 66
... 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 . As 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 . As It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians ...
Pagina 67
... Italy from the neighbouring countries was the importance which the population of the towns , at a very early period , began to acquire . Some cities had been founded in wild and remote situations , by fugitives who had es- caped from ...
... Italy from the neighbouring countries was the importance which the population of the towns , at a very early period , began to acquire . Some cities had been founded in wild and remote situations , by fugitives who had es- caped from ...
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