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The Prince

By: Nicolo Machiavelli

...nditions under which the British Em- pire maintains its existence. When Mr Balfour replied to the allegations that the Roman Empire sank under the wei... ...o fear from foreigners than from the people ought to leave them alone. The castle of Milan, built by Francesco Sforza, has made, and will make, more t... ... for the duke, and to honour him in person, sent away their men to several castles distant from Sinigalia about six miles, so that room could be made ... ...sser Jacopo da Santa Croce. After which news, on 18th January 1502, in the castle of Pieve, they also were strangled in the same way. 108 The Prince ... ...nemy in the open lest he should be overwhelmed by numbers. Serravalle is a castle between Pescia and Pistoia, situated on a hill which blocks the Val ... ...io became lord of Pistoia, had been allowed to remain in possession of the castle, it being common to the Lucchese and the Pistoians, and unclaimed by...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...mmermoor. Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation, Ravenswood Castle a fine name for proud poverty, and the foreign mission of state only... ...will some- times draw a stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley. Thomas Carlyle, with his natu- ral taste for what is man... ... material world on thought and volition. Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the Spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud, of a city or ... .... O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pas- tures, and not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer. The conditions are hard, but equa... ...g myself to a new indi- vidual, what may befall me. I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord, whenever and... ...tators. The constitu- 267 Emerson tion of our society makes it a giant’s castle to the ambi- tious youth who have not found their names enrolled in ...

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John Bull's Other Island

By: George Bernard Shaw

...pany, an impres- sive portrait of Gladstone, and several caricatures of Mr Balfour as a rabbit and Mr Chamberlain as a fox by Francis Carruthers Gould... ...eck of the damned agent, and blown the farm up with dy- namite, and Dublin Castle along with it. LARRY. Oh yes: you’d have done great things; and a fa... ...have yanny Coercion Acs in England? Have yanny removables? Have you Dublin Castle to suppress every newspaper dhat takes the part o your own counthry?...

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...by referring it to an arbitrator chosen unanimously by Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour might not improbably cost more and last longer than a civil war. An... ...mpt was made to prevent even its performance in Ireland by some indiscreet Castle officials in the ab- sence of the Lord Lieutenant. This attempt gave...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...e was full of tales of greater situations in his younger days. He spoke of castles and parks with a humbling familiarity. He told of places where unde... ... lus or part-man of mine that walked about the eighteenth century with Dr. Balfour in his youth, was in the way of meet- ing other homunculos or part-... ...doubtless we looked down upon them duly. But as I went to college with Dr. Balfour, I may have seen the lamp and oil man taking down the shutters from... ... scenes, and I am bound to say was charming. How the roads wander, how the castle sits upon the hill, how the sun eradiates from behind the cloud, and... ... scene in nature, Skelt would have been bolder; there had been certainly a castle on that mountain, and the hollow tree – that set piece – I seem to m... ... is a yet wider excursion from the author’s customary fields; the scene at Castlewood is pure Dumas; the great and wily English borrower has here borr... ...ne spring about half-way down the descent, and which had once supplied the castle with water, was engaged in bleaching linen.” A man who gave in such ...

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