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Strona 3
... kind of atten- tion , the infamy with which posterity has stigmatised their author must appear inexplicable . We have now to examine whether his principal political work , The Prince , ' at all accounts for this infamy , and whether it ...
... kind of atten- tion , the infamy with which posterity has stigmatised their author must appear inexplicable . We have now to examine whether his principal political work , The Prince , ' at all accounts for this infamy , and whether it ...
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... kind , will be of no avail ; for how should men who have been accustomed only to a private station know how to reign ? and their power can only rest on a very slight foundation . New states , like all other natural productions of quick ...
... kind , will be of no avail ; for how should men who have been accustomed only to a private station know how to reign ? and their power can only rest on a very slight foundation . New states , like all other natural productions of quick ...
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... kind of attention , should not have discovered that his ' Prince ' is meant to be a scare - crow . If any further proof than what has been already given be requir- ed , The Prince ' abounds in internal evidence of the opposition of ...
... kind of attention , should not have discovered that his ' Prince ' is meant to be a scare - crow . If any further proof than what has been already given be requir- ed , The Prince ' abounds in internal evidence of the opposition of ...
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... kind of warfare . When the king of Prussia wrote his Anti - Machiavel he was a young man ; after he was grown older and wiser , he discovered that there was another justifiable mode of acquiring dominion , that is , whenever a ...
... kind of warfare . When the king of Prussia wrote his Anti - Machiavel he was a young man ; after he was grown older and wiser , he discovered that there was another justifiable mode of acquiring dominion , that is , whenever a ...
Strona 23
... kind ; if they were not hard reined and kept in obedience by the fear of punishment ? " To prove that his majesty's political foresight is at least equal to his criticism , I select the following passage : " The fashion of revolutions ...
... kind ; if they were not hard reined and kept in obedience by the fear of punishment ? " To prove that his majesty's political foresight is at least equal to his criticism , I select the following passage : " The fashion of revolutions ...
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Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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...