Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volumen1Carey, 1852 |
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... correct each other . The scattered elements of truth cease to conflict , and begin to coalesce . And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos . Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as ...
... correct each other . The scattered elements of truth cease to conflict , and begin to coalesce . And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos . Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as ...
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... correct and vigorous delineation of human nature , it produces interest without a pleasing or skilful plot , and laughter without the least am- bition of wit . The lover , not a very delicate or generous lover , and his adviser the ...
... correct and vigorous delineation of human nature , it produces interest without a pleasing or skilful plot , and laughter without the least am- bition of wit . The lover , not a very delicate or generous lover , and his adviser the ...
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... correct of all that Machiavelli has written in metre . seems to have entertained the same opinion ; for he has in- troduced some of them in other places . The contemporaries of the author were not blind to the merits of this striking ...
... correct of all that Machiavelli has written in metre . seems to have entertained the same opinion ; for he has in- troduced some of them in other places . The contemporaries of the author were not blind to the merits of this striking ...
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... correct his speculations , and to impart to them that vivid and practical character which so widely distinguishes them from the vague theories of most political philosophers . Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so ...
... correct his speculations , and to impart to them that vivid and practical character which so widely distinguishes them from the vague theories of most political philosophers . Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so ...
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... correct accounts . The truth is , that the book belongs rather to ancient than to modern literature . It is in the style , not of Davila and Clarendon , but of Herodotus and Tacitus ; and the classical histories may almost be called ...
... correct accounts . The truth is , that the book belongs rather to ancient than to modern literature . It is in the style , not of Davila and Clarendon , but of Herodotus and Tacitus ; and the classical histories may almost be called ...
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