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... present genera tion . The men of our time are not to be con verted or perverted by quartos . A few more days , and this Essay will follow the Defensi Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the ...
... present genera tion . The men of our time are not to be con verted or perverted by quartos . A few more days , and this Essay will follow the Defensi Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the ...
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... present , than on what they remotely suggest However strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to de- scribe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the ...
... present , than on what they remotely suggest However strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to de- scribe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the ...
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... present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The subsidies are ...
... present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The subsidies are ...
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... present generation . In that age the state of side . Charles too , it should always be re- things was different . It was not then fully membered , was put to death by men who had understood how vast an interval separates the been ...
... present generation . In that age the state of side . Charles too , it should always be re- things was different . It was not then fully membered , was put to death by men who had understood how vast an interval separates the been ...
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... present instance , several circumstances have led even superficial observers to question the justice of the vulgar decision . It is notorious that Machiavelli was , through life , a zealous republican . In the same year in which he ...
... present instance , several circumstances have led even superficial observers to question the justice of the vulgar decision . It is notorious that Machiavelli was , through life , a zealous republican . In the same year in which he ...
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