1 The Romans, accordingly, admiring the prudence and virtues of Numa, assented to all the measures which he recommended.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI. 2 Power was indeed given him to determine by himself what measures the exigency demanded; to do what he had to do without consultation; and to punish without appeal.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV. 3 For without the senate they could take no warlike measures, while by assembling the senate they seemed to put an end to their own authority.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL. 4 For the hostile temper produced by these two causes is more to be feared than any beside, and demands measures of extreme severity to correct it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LVII. 5 All which is implied first in the measures proposed by Camillus, and next in the resolutions passed on these proposals by the senate.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. 6 For as men judge of things by their results, any evil which ensues from such measures will be imputed to their author.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV. 7 In like manner, we read of many citizens who having strenuously promoted various measures were banished when these turned out badly.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV. 8 And thus it is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU... 9 Fourthly, by acquiring so much power before the Pope should die that he could by his own measures resist the first shock.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ... 10 Now, whenever I hear any one advocating measures that are meant to curtail the development of another, I pity the individual who would do this.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIII. 11 He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.
12 Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.
13 After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.
14 She was not doomed, however, to be long in ignorance of his measures.
15 These vigorous measures struck such terror to the breast of Mrs. Crupp, that she subsided into her own kitchen, under the impression that my aunt was mad.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER