The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 309
... princes must of necessity suffer by the ambi- tion , discord , and obstinacy of the latter . Homer then has taken for the foundation of his fable this great truth , that a misunderstanding between princes is the ruin of their own states ...
... princes must of necessity suffer by the ambi- tion , discord , and obstinacy of the latter . Homer then has taken for the foundation of his fable this great truth , that a misunderstanding between princes is the ruin of their own states ...
Page 310
... princes , being both made wiser at their own cost , are reconciled and unite again ; then this valiant prince not only obtains the victory in the public cause , but revenges his private wrongs by killing with his own hands the author of ...
... princes , being both made wiser at their own cost , are reconciled and unite again ; then this valiant prince not only obtains the victory in the public cause , but revenges his private wrongs by killing with his own hands the author of ...
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... princes had in the former . The subjects have scarce any need but of one general maxim , which is to suffer themselves to be governed and to obey faithfully , whatever reason they may imagine against the orders they receive . It is easy ...
... princes had in the former . The subjects have scarce any need but of one general maxim , which is to suffer themselves to be governed and to obey faithfully , whatever reason they may imagine against the orders they receive . It is easy ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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