1 All this irritation is purely subjective.
2 But in whichever class we place it, it will be seen to have had its beginning in freedom, and not in subjection to another State.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. 3 The third method is to hold other States in direct subjection to you, and not merely associated with you as companions; and this was the plan pursued by the Spartans and Athenians.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV. 4 This is more particularly the case with republics, as in Tuscany for example; for contention and rivalry have always made, and always will make it extremely hard for one republic to bring another into subjection.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII. 5 By means such as these, therefore, cities innumerable have been brought into subjection, as recently was the case with Florence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII. 6 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.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXVII. 7 And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle.
8 Every one is born a subject to his father, or his prince, and is therefore under the perpetual tie of subjection and allegiance.
9 I will not dispute now whether princes are exempt from the laws of their country; but this I am sure, they owe subjection to the laws of God and nature.
10 My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding.
11 He saw it, and his face expressed that utter subjection, that slavish devotion, which had done so much to win her.
12 We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us, said he.
13 If the consciousness of freedom were not a separate and independent source of self-consciousness it would be subject to reasoning and to experience, but in fact such subjection does not exist and is inconceivable.
14 It is the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 15 Otherwise, I know it is one of those subjects I shall never hear the last of.