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... writings of Machiavel , 3 On the brevity of Life , 25 Review of Paulding's Back- woodsman , Ingenious Inventions , 26 39 On the Political State of Algiers , 40 Dumb Creatures compared with Man , Some account of Werner , Arrest of Chev ...
... writings of Machiavel , 3 On the brevity of Life , 25 Review of Paulding's Back- woodsman , Ingenious Inventions , 26 39 On the Political State of Algiers , 40 Dumb Creatures compared with Man , Some account of Werner , Arrest of Chev ...
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... WRITINGS OF MACHIAVEL , WITH A SLIGHT SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER . Le Prince de Machiavel est le livre des republicains . ' Russeau du Contrat Sociel . [ Concluded from our last . ] SECTION V. To him who has read the extracts from ...
... WRITINGS OF MACHIAVEL , WITH A SLIGHT SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER . Le Prince de Machiavel est le livre des republicains . ' Russeau du Contrat Sociel . [ Concluded from our last . ] SECTION V. To him who has read the extracts from ...
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... writings contain only a fair portrait of the actions of men , called illustrious , why adore the ori- ginal , yet execrate the copy ? Did not the great Cosimo de Medici say that princes cannot govern their states with their beads in ...
... writings contain only a fair portrait of the actions of men , called illustrious , why adore the ori- ginal , yet execrate the copy ? Did not the great Cosimo de Medici say that princes cannot govern their states with their beads in ...
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... writings , than to display his ingenuity and eloquence . With both one and the other , his writings abound ; but I am ob- liged to content myself with laying before the reader , the follow- ing ingenious explanation of the reason why ...
... writings , than to display his ingenuity and eloquence . With both one and the other , his writings abound ; but I am ob- liged to content myself with laying before the reader , the follow- ing ingenious explanation of the reason why ...
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... writings , but from the Anti - Machiavel of his enemy , was so clumsy as even to mistake the latter . The other writers who have attacked Machiavel are Paulus Jovius , whom I have already noticed ; Varillas , a French historian , of ...
... writings , but from the Anti - Machiavel of his enemy , was so clumsy as even to mistake the latter . The other writers who have attacked Machiavel are Paulus Jovius , whom I have already noticed ; Varillas , a French historian , of ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...