Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... literature , they set up their country as their idol , and pro- posed to themselves the heroes of Plutarch as their exam- ples . They seem to have borne some resemblance to the Brissotines of the French Revolution . But it is not very ...
... literature , they set up their country as their idol , and pro- posed to themselves the heroes of Plutarch as their exam- ples . They seem to have borne some resemblance to the Brissotines of the French Revolution . But it is not very ...
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... literature , a finer relish for every elegant amusement , or a more chivalrous delicacy of honour and love . Though his opinions were democratic , his tastes and his associates were such as harmonize best with monarchy and aristocracy ...
... literature , a finer relish for every elegant amusement , or a more chivalrous delicacy of honour and love . Though his opinions were democratic , his tastes and his associates were such as harmonize best with monarchy and aristocracy ...
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... literature , but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good , the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity , the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptation and dangers , the deadly hatred which he bore ...
... literature , but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good , the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity , the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptation and dangers , the deadly hatred which he bore ...
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... literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement , the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked , yet not ashamed , such cool , judicious ...
... literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement , the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked , yet not ashamed , such cool , judicious ...
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... literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of the intel- lect had been turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries ...
... literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the fields of the intel- lect had been turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries ...
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