The Citizen of a Republic: What are His Rights, His Duties, and Privileges, and what Should be His EducationPaine and Burgess, 1845 - 190 sider |
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acquire advantage affairs Aristotle Athenian battle beautiful become Cæsar Caius Verres called Cato Catullus Ceba Challenge of Barletta CHAPTER character civil counsel crime danger dignity EDWARDS LESTER endeavor enemy Epaminondas esteem example exercise favor feel Florentine Florentine Histories foreign fortune friends friendship Genoa give glory habits Hesiod honor illustrate indulge Intellectual Algebra Isocrates Italian justice King Lacedemonians laws Lester liberality libertine liberty lofty lovers Lycurgus magistrate magnanimous magnificent manner Marcus Tully Medici ment mind moderation modesty moral virtues necessary never noble occasion opinion passion Pericles person Phocion Plato pleasures Plutarch poet political practice praise princes principles proper prudence quam reason refuse regard remember render replied republic republican Citizen Roman Roman Republic Roman Senate says Plutarch seems Socrates soul speak spirit Tacitus Themistocles things Tibullus tion valor vice wealth wise worthy Xenophon
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Side 87 - Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Side 11 - The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature, and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect.
Side 79 - JUSTUM et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster, Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae, 5 Nee fulminantis magna manus Jovis : Si fractus illabatur orbis, * Impavidum ferient ruinae.
Side 11 - The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature ; and we are not aware that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected ; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever. The history terminates with the death of Lorenzo de Medici.
Side 11 - ... that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy ; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected ; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind for ever. The History terminates with the death of Lorenzo de' Medici.- Machiavelli had, it seems, intended to continue his narrative to a later period.
Side 2 - LESTER, and designed to elucidate the genius, the live* and times of some of the most celebrated of the Italian literati. The romance, of which a spirited and elegant translation has there been given, is characterized by competent judges, as one of the best, if not the very best, in the Italian tongue. Its incidents and scenery carry us back to the golden age of the Medici, and introduce us to an intimate and familiar acquaintanceship with the pervading genius and spirit of an era sacred to, every...
Side xi - is a work," says the Biblioteca Enciclopedica Italiana, "enriched with elegant learning, and written with all that terseness and solemn earnestness of style, which characterized the great writers of the brilliant ages of the republics of antiquity. The man who best restrains his appetites and lusts — who is the most prudent in public deliberations — the most Justin every private and public relation of family and of society, is, in the estimation of Ansaldo Ceba, the best citizen.
Side 9 - North," and an analysis of his critical powers ; a defence of Machiavelli —spoken of as " a man of profound thought, of great sagacity, of indomitable 'will, and unrivalled during his time, if not in knowledge of the human, at least in knowledge of the Italian, heart; "—new remarks on " Leigh Hunt," " Festus," and the effects of travel on literary wares.
Side 182 - La gente nuova ei subiti guadagni Orgoglio e dismisura han generata, Fiorenza, in te; sì che tu già ten piagni.
Side 190 - ... incesserunt et coturnati, simul exierunt, excalceantur et ad staturam suam redeunt. Nemo istorum, quos divitiae honoresque in altiore fastigio ponunt, magnus est. Quare ergo magnus videtur? cum basi illum sua metirìs.