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Side 5
... never be forgotten , but will burst forth at every favourable juncture . When , indeed , the con- quered country has been accustomed to live under kingly government , and the race of the prince is extinct , the inhabitants being trained ...
... never be forgotten , but will burst forth at every favourable juncture . When , indeed , the con- quered country has been accustomed to live under kingly government , and the race of the prince is extinct , the inhabitants being trained ...
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... never suffer the favors of fortune to pass away unprofitably . “ I will bring examples , fresh in our memory , of the two cases of ac- quiring sovereignty by talent and by fortune . These are Francis Sforza Francis Sforza besieged Milan ...
... never suffer the favors of fortune to pass away unprofitably . “ I will bring examples , fresh in our memory , of the two cases of ac- quiring sovereignty by talent and by fortune . These are Francis Sforza Francis Sforza besieged Milan ...
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... never read the original work , but only the answer to it , supposed its division to have been the same . In the second place , this jesuit charges Machiavel with several opinions which he never published , such as that paganism Del ...
... never read the original work , but only the answer to it , supposed its division to have been the same . In the second place , this jesuit charges Machiavel with several opinions which he never published , such as that paganism Del ...
Side 18
... never saw his works , and from the literal construction which others have put on them , it is plain they did not understand them . Leaving however the consideration of the works of the greater number of these antago- nists , for fear of ...
... never saw his works , and from the literal construction which others have put on them , it is plain they did not understand them . Leaving however the consideration of the works of the greater number of these antago- nists , for fear of ...
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some consequence , as it proves that a professed writer against Machiavel never read his work in the original , but was liable to all the mistakes and interpolations of the French translator , and therefore as in the present instance ...
some consequence , as it proves that a professed writer against Machiavel never read his work in the original , but was liable to all the mistakes and interpolations of the French translator , and therefore as in the present instance ...
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Side 266 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Side 23 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Side 245 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and po'verty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Side 153 - And opened on a narrow green, Where weeping birch and willow round With their long fibres swept the ground; Here, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower.
Side 326 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Side 269 - The Congress shall have Power 1 To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States...
Side 141 - In short, every summer one lives in a state of mutiny and murmur, and I have found the reason: it is because we will affect to have a summer, and we have no title to any such thing. Our poets learnt their trade of the Romans, and so adopted the terms of their masters. They talk of shady groves, purling streams, and cooling breezes, and we get sore throats and agues with attempting to realize these visions.
Side 269 - To borrow Money on the credit of the United States ; 3 To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes...
Side 316 - ... sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts tomorrow.
Side 302 - And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best; whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once...