 | Niccolò Machiavelli - 1762 - 864 páginas
...carried along with their armies when they marched ; and by it, their fignals for planting and relieving guards and centinels, and other warlike operations...their liberty -, and it is hardly to be conceived, bow much ftrength and authority they acquired in a very ihort time : for their city not only became... | |
 | John Adams - 1794 - 472 páginas
...was given to foreigners. — By fuch difcipline in their civil and military affairs, fays Machiavel, the Florentines laid the foundation of their liberty...only became the capital of Tufcany, but was reckoned among the principal in Italy ; and indeed there is no degree of grandeur to which it might not have... | |
 | John Adams - 1851 - 518 páginas
...trust themselves or the anziani with this power, that it was given to foreigners. " By such discipline in their civil and military affairs, the Florentines...liberty; and it is hardly to be conceived, how much strength and authority they acquired in a very short time ; for their city not only became the capital... | |
 | John Adams - 2004 - 580 páginas
...trust themselves or the anziani with this power, that it was given to foreigners. "By such discipline in their civil and military affairs, the Florentines...liberty; and it is hardly to be conceived, how much strength and authority they acquired in a very short time; for their city not only became the capital... | |
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Nedham, as any to be found; — yet the judicial power is here separated, and the people could so little trust themselves or the anziani with this power, that it was given to foreigners. " 'By such discipline in their civil and military affairs, the Florentines... 