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The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Volume 2

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Niccolò Machiavelli, Ellis Farneworth

T. Davies, 1762 - 842 pages

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people Page	101

That it is impolitic in any man who was humble and mer	107

That men ufually rife from one degree of ambition	113

If fuch Cities as Rome which were originally free	119

That the People deluded by a falfe appearance of advantage	125

How eafy a matter it is to govern a State where the People	130

The Multitude united is ſtrong and formidable but fepa	144

Whether an Alliance made with a Prince or a Common	151

That men more frequently advance themselves by guile	205

How much our Military Diſcipline in theſe times differs	213

Whether in conformity to the authority of the Romans	221

How dangerous it is for any Prince or Republic to employ	229

That the Romans always avoided taking a middle courfe	235

That it is imprudent to attack a people who are divided	245

That wife Princes and wellgoverned Republics ought	248

Princes and Republics that are truly magnanimous	254

The Contents of the Second Book of Political Difcourfes	159

With what Nations the Romans were engaged in their wars	166

That Rome made itself firong and powerful by deftroying	180

That Deluges Peftilences the change of Religion and Lan	186

What are the reafons that induce a people to abandon their	191

That Money is not the Sinews of War as it is commonly thought	197

That the Romans upon any Expedition gave the Com	262

That it is the part of a wife man to feem a fool upon occafion	271

Of confpiracies	277

How it comes to pass that in changes of State from liberty	296

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Title	The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Volume 2 The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Frederick II (King of Prussia) Volume 2 of The Works of Nicholas Machiavel: Newly Translated from the Originals : Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never Before Published, and Several New Plans on the Art of War, Frederick II (King of Prussia)
Authors	Niccolò Machiavelli, Ellis Farneworth
Publisher	T. Davies, 1762
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	13 Feb 2009
Length	842 pages

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