Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Pagina 34
... Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we suppose , knew their own meaning ; and , if we may believe them , their hostility was primarily not to popery , but to tyranny . They did not drive out a tyrant ...
... Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we suppose , knew their own meaning ; and , if we may believe them , their hostility was primarily not to popery , but to tyranny . They did not drive out a tyrant ...
Pagina 37
... prince should again require a sup- ply , and again repay it with a perjury ? They were compelled to choose whether they would trust a tyrant or conquer him . We think that they chose wisely and nobly . The advocates of Charles , like ...
... prince should again require a sup- ply , and again repay it with a perjury ? They were compelled to choose whether they would trust a tyrant or conquer him . We think that they chose wisely and nobly . The advocates of Charles , like ...
Pagina 62
... Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a convenient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . An ...
... Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a convenient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . An ...
Pagina 64
... Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation is that which is furnished by the other works of Machiavelli . In all the writings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the research of editors has , in the course of ...
... Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation is that which is furnished by the other works of Machiavelli . In all the writings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the research of editors has , in the course of ...
Pagina 65
... Prince itself we could select many passages in support of this remark . To a reader of our age and country this inconsistency is , at first , perfectly bewildering . The whole man seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of ...
... Prince itself we could select many passages in support of this remark . To a reader of our age and country this inconsistency is , at first , perfectly bewildering . The whole man seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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