Notes to Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius — Ninian Hill Thomson translation
17 notes · Ninian Hill Thomson translation
CHAPTER XI.—Of the Religion of the Romans. · Note 1CHAPTER XXI.—That it is a great reproach to a Prince or to a Commonwealth to be without a national Army. · Note 1CHAPTER XXIX.—Whether a People or a Prince is the more ungrateful. · Note 1CHAPTER XLVI.—That Men climb from one step of Ambition to another, seeking at first to escape Injury and then to injure others. · Note 1CHAPTER LIII.—That the People, deceived by a false show of Advantage, often desire what would be their Ruin; and that large Hopes and brave Promises easily move them. · Note 1CHAPTER LIV.—Of the boundless Authority which a great Man may use to restrain an excited Multitude. · Note 1CHAPTER VIII.—Why certain Nations leave their ancestral Seats and overflow the Countries of others. · Note 1CHAPTER XIX.—That Acquisitions made by ill-governed States and such as follow not the valiant methods of the Romans, tend rather to their Ruin than to their Aggrandizement. · Note 1CHAPTER XXVI.—That Taunts and Abuse breed Hatred against him who uses them, without yielding him any Advantage. · Note 1CHAPTER I.—For a Sect or Commonwealth to last long, it must often be brought back to its Beginnings. · Note 1CHAPTER VI.—Of Conspiracies. · Note 1CHAPTER VI.—Of Conspiracies. · Note 2CHAPTER XIII.—Whether we may trust more to a valiant Captain with a weak Army, or to a valiant Army with a weak Captain. · Note 1CHAPTER XIX.—Whether Indulgence or Severity be more necessary for controlling a Multitude. · Note 1CHAPTER XXVII.—How a divided City may be reunited, and how it is a false opinion that to hold Cities in subjection they must be kept divided. · Note 1CHAPTER XXVII.—How a divided City may be reunited, and how it is a false opinion that to hold Cities in subjection they must be kept divided. · Note 2CHAPTER XXIX.—That the Faults of a People are due to its Prince. · Note 1