Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 40
... moral character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The vio- lence of those outrages will always be ...
... moral character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The vio- lence of those outrages will always be ...
Pagina 57
... moral and intellectual slavery , and the benefits which would result from the liberty of the press and the unfettered exercise of private judg- ment . These were the objects which Milton justly conceived to be the most important . He ...
... moral and intellectual slavery , and the benefits which would result from the liberty of the press and the unfettered exercise of private judg- ment . These were the objects which Milton justly conceived to be the most important . He ...
Pagina 64
... , in his private memoranda , the same obliquity of moral principle for which the Prince is so severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many 64 MACHIAVELLI .
... , in his private memoranda , the same obliquity of moral principle for which the Prince is so severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many 64 MACHIAVELLI .
Pagina 65
... moral sensibility of the writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ...
... moral sensibility of the writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ...
Pagina 66
... moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations ...
... moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations ...
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