Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 33
... Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we sup- pose , 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 sup- pose , 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 36
... prince should again require a supply , 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 the ...
... prince should again require a supply , 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 the ...
Pagina 60
... Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a con- venient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume ...
... Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a con- venient crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume ...
Pagina 62
... Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation is that which is fur- nished by the other works of Machiavelli . In all the writings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the re- search of editors has , in the course of ...
... Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation is that which is fur- nished by the other works of Machiavelli . In all the writings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the re- search of editors has , in the course of ...
Pagina 63
... 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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