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Page 15
... political face of the earth , and to be a by - word and a enmities rendered a stable and happy settle- shaking of the head to the nations . ment next to impossible . The choice lay , not Most of the remarks which we have hitherto ...
... political face of the earth , and to be a by - word and a enmities rendered a stable and happy settle- shaking of the head to the nations . ment next to impossible . The choice lay , not Most of the remarks which we have hitherto ...
Page 17
... political question . It was not for a treacherous king or an intolerant church that they fought ; but for the old banner which had waved in su many battles over the heads of their fathers , and for the altars at which they had received ...
... political question . It was not for a treacherous king or an intolerant church that they fought ; but for the old banner which had waved in su many battles over the heads of their fathers , and for the altars at which they had received ...
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... political and metaphysical , we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length . been to substitute a moral for a political servi tude , to exalt the Popes at the expense of the Cæsars . Happily the public mind of Italy had long ...
... political and metaphysical , we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length . been to substitute a moral for a political servi tude , to exalt the Popes at the expense of the Cæsars . Happily the public mind of Italy had long ...
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... political in- ter and manner . The narrations , the reflec - trigue had been carried in Italy , these were tions , the jokes , the lamentations , are all the times which required it all . very worst of their respective kinds , at once ...
... political in- ter and manner . The narrations , the reflec - trigue had been carried in Italy , these were tions , the jokes , the lamentations , are all the times which required it all . very worst of their respective kinds , at once ...
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... politicians , com- mitted for great ends on select victims , the moral code of the Italians was too indulgent . But ... political degradation . Literature and taste , indeed , still disguised , with a flush of hectic loveliness and ...
... politicians , com- mitted for great ends on select victims , the moral code of the Italians was too indulgent . But ... political degradation . Literature and taste , indeed , still disguised , with a flush of hectic loveliness and ...
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