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If they were assailed with blind fury , it was because they had ex- acted an equally blind submission . It is the character of such revolutions that we always see the worst of them at first . Till men have been for some time free ...
If they were assailed with blind fury , it was because they had ex- acted an equally blind submission . It is the character of such revolutions that we always see the worst of them at first . Till men have been for some time free ...
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Hence it was that operations , languid and inde- cisive beyond any recorded in history , marches and coun- termarches , pillaging expeditions and blockades , bloodless capitulations and equally bloodless combats , make up the military ...
Hence it was that operations , languid and inde- cisive beyond any recorded in history , marches and coun- termarches , pillaging expeditions and blockades , bloodless capitulations and equally bloodless combats , make up the military ...
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... lips formed with feminine delicacy , but com- pressed with more than masculine decision , mark out me . at once enterprising and apprehensive ; men equally skilled in detecting the purpose of others , and in concealing their own ...
... lips formed with feminine delicacy , but com- pressed with more than masculine decision , mark out me . at once enterprising and apprehensive ; men equally skilled in detecting the purpose of others , and in concealing their own ...
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It cannot be doubted , however , that the imagination of Machiavelli was strongly impressed and his speculations on government coloured , by the observations which he made on the sin- gular character , and equally singular fortunes ...
It cannot be doubted , however , that the imagination of Machiavelli was strongly impressed and his speculations on government coloured , by the observations which he made on the sin- gular character , and equally singular fortunes ...
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The time seemed near when the sea - weed should overgrow her silent Rialto , and the fisherman wash his nets in her deserted arsenal . Naples had been four times conquered and reconquered , by tyrants equally indifferent to its welfare ...
The time seemed near when the sea - weed should overgrow her silent Rialto , and the fisherman wash his nets in her deserted arsenal . Naples had been four times conquered and reconquered , by tyrants equally indifferent to its welfare ...
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