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... prince should again require a supply , and again repay it with a perjury ? They were compelled to choose whether they would trust a tyrant or conquer him . We think that they chose wisely and nobly . The advocates of Charles , like the ...
... prince should again require a supply , and again repay it with a perjury ? They were compelled to choose whether they would trust a tyrant or conquer him . We think that they chose wisely and nobly . The advocates of Charles , like the ...
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... Prince itself . But the most decisive re- futation is that which is furnished by the other works of Machiavelli . In all the writ- ings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the research of editors has , in the course of ...
... Prince itself . But the most decisive re- futation is that which is furnished by the other works of Machiavelli . In all the writ- ings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the research of editors has , in the course of ...
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... prince , and of the favourite who governed the prince , and of the lacquey who governed the favourite . He was to compli- ment the mistress and bribe the confessor , to panegyrize or supplicate , to laugh or weep , to accommodate ...
... prince , and of the favourite who governed the prince , and of the lacquey who governed the favourite . He was to compli- ment the mistress and bribe the confessor , to panegyrize or supplicate , to laugh or weep , to accommodate ...
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... Prince , and perhaps also from some indistinct traditions , several writers have supposed a connection be- tween those remarkable men much closer than ever existed . The Envoy has even been accused of prompting the crimes of the artful ...
... Prince , and perhaps also from some indistinct traditions , several writers have supposed a connection be- tween those remarkable men much closer than ever existed . The Envoy has even been accused of prompting the crimes of the artful ...
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... Prince and the Discourses on Livy were written after the fall of the Republican Government . The former was ... Prince concludes shows how strongly the writer felt upon this subject . The Prince traces the progress of an am- bitious man ...
... Prince and the Discourses on Livy were written after the fall of the Republican Government . The former was ... Prince concludes shows how strongly the writer felt upon this subject . The Prince traces the progress of an am- bitious man ...
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