1 No ground, because nothing was taken from them; and no opportunity, because those in authority kept them under control, and never employed them in affairs in which they could acquire importance.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. 2 Of the mistakes it commits in the effort to acquire liberty, I shall speak, hereafter, in the proper place.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIX. 3 In the first place, to enable a citizen to work harm and to acquire undue authority, many circumstances must be present which never can be present in a State which is not corrupted.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV. 4 And this from their eagerness to acquire without knowing what way to take.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX. 5 For we never find Rome seeking to acquire towns, or to purchase peace with money, but always confiding in her own warlike valour, which could not, I believe, be said of any other republic.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXX. 6 Those who by valorous ways become princes, like these men, acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU... 7 And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XIV — THAT WHICH CONCERNS A PRINCE ON THE SUBJECT... 8 Whenever they were asked to do so, the Negro students gladly took the Indians as room-mates, in order that they might teach them to speak English and to acquire civilized habits.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VI. 9 There was no need for him to acquire a good head for whisky, he had been born with one.
10 Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast--that all of the rest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket.
11 He wanted a wife and he wanted children and, if he did not acquire them soon, it would be too late.
12 I like babies and I like little children, till they begin to grow up and acquire adult habits of thought and adult abilities to lie and cheat and be dirty.
13 She could not acquire the air of doing things because she wanted to, and making her choice the final seal of their fitness.
14 Though a Gopher Prairie regards itself as a part of the Great World, compares itself to Rome and Vienna, it will not acquire the scientific spirit, the international mind, which would make it great.
15 The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to acquire it shortly.