The History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent : Together with the Prince, and Various Historical TractsG. Bell, 1898 - 522 pages |
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... mind distracted by the cries of misery and of degradation that reached him from every side , he was left to the long torture of solitude and suspense . Here also his fortitude remained un- shaken , and his noble power of patient ...
... mind distracted by the cries of misery and of degradation that reached him from every side , he was left to the long torture of solitude and suspense . Here also his fortitude remained un- shaken , and his noble power of patient ...
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... mind , are professed without the slightest circumlocution , and assumed as the fundamental axioms of all political science . " It is not strange that ordinary readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and ...
... mind , are professed without the slightest circumlocution , and assumed as the fundamental axioms of all political science . " It is not strange that ordinary readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and ...
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... mind could not rest on the threshold of the temple it had opened . Step by step he was led on to a more attentive examination of his principles , new truths were discovered , some erroneous views were brought out in their true light by ...
... mind could not rest on the threshold of the temple it had opened . Step by step he was led on to a more attentive examination of his principles , new truths were discovered , some erroneous views were brought out in their true light by ...
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... mind that sought relief in a variation of duties rather than in actual repose , were wearisome blanks in existence . In such moments his spirit seemed to break , and his fortitude to forsake him , and it is impossible to read the many ...
... mind that sought relief in a variation of duties rather than in actual repose , were wearisome blanks in existence . In such moments his spirit seemed to break , and his fortitude to forsake him , and it is impossible to read the many ...
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... mind like his by detached passages and fragments of his general train of thought , no part of his writings could be selected with so much propriety as the Introductions to the books of the Florentine Histories . No work , if we except ...
... mind like his by detached passages and fragments of his general train of thought , no part of his writings could be selected with so much propriety as the Introductions to the books of the Florentine Histories . No work , if we except ...
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Page 521 - English Translation on opposite pages, Notes, Introduction, and Glossary, by Rev. S. Fox, MA To which is added the Anglo-Saxon Version of the METRES OF BOETHIUS, with a free Translation by Martin F.