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... strong power , arising in the west , rushed in upon them and silenced their tumults , by involving all the contending parties in the same destruction . It is little to say , that the contentions between the successors of Alexander ...
... strong power , arising in the west , rushed in upon them and silenced their tumults , by involving all the contending parties in the same destruction . It is little to say , that the contentions between the successors of Alexander ...
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... strong point of light upon that part which coincides with Roman history , and of that part only on the point of time when they received the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a stroke which is allowed to have cut ...
... strong point of light upon that part which coincides with Roman history , and of that part only on the point of time when they received the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a stroke which is allowed to have cut ...
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... strong propensity to virtue . But unbounded power proceeds step by step , until it has eradicated every laudable principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favourites and ministers are not worse . There is ...
... strong propensity to virtue . But unbounded power proceeds step by step , until it has eradicated every laudable principle . It has been remarked , that there is no prince so bad , whose favourites and ministers are not worse . There is ...
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... strong - hold of arbitrary power . Poland has at present the name of republic , and it is one of the aristo- cratic form ; but it is well known , that the little finger of this government is heavier than the loins of arbitrary power in ...
... strong - hold of arbitrary power . Poland has at present the name of republic , and it is one of the aristo- cratic form ; but it is well known , that the little finger of this government is heavier than the loins of arbitrary power in ...
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... strong instance of this . No man had done greater things , nor with more honest ambition . Yet on his return to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a criminal . He went to the palace , not like a victorious ...
... strong instance of this . No man had done greater things , nor with more honest ambition . Yet on his return to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a criminal . He went to the palace , not like a victorious ...
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