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Excerpt from The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State to the Republic of Florence, Vol. 3 of 4: Translated From the Originals; Illustrated With Notes, Annotations, Dissertations, and Several New Plans on the Art of War
Amples it lays before us: to which it is ow ing, that few people underfland them, fewer fiill find any true relifh or pleafure in read ing them, and of thofe very few, perhaps here and there one, may be delighted for a while, with the recital of the many ?range accidents and occurrences he meets with, but without any further thought or defign of improving himfelf by them from an imagination that the great examples he there fees, are not only difficult, but impofiible to be equalled: as if the liars had changed their courfe, and not only the Elements, but even mankind themfelves, had loll their pril'tine vigour, and degenerated from what they were in former times.
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