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  • Actually, Machiavelli plagiarized many of the main ideas in Discourses from the Greek Polybius (circa 120 BC).

    Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership 2010

  • In the "Encheiridion Epictete" -- a "Handbook to Epictetus" compiled and condensed from the chaos of the almost verbatim "Discourses" -- Arrian gives the most authentic account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman Stoics, the sect founded by Zeno about 300 years before the Christian era, which flourished until the decline of Rome.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909

  • B4 comes from a work entitled Discourses (Diatribai).

    Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

  • Deuided into two Tragicall Discourses, as they were sundrie times shewed vpon Stages in the Citie of London.

    The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great 2004

  • Marx calls The Discourses a "genuine masterpiece," and Engels (in the Dialectics of Nature) speaks of Machiavelli as "one of the giants of the Enlightenment," a man "free from petit-bourgeois outlook…."

    A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli Berlin, Isaiah 1971

  • The Discourses were the beginning of a movement in an exactly opposite direction; that is, away from patient collection of wide multitudes of facts relating to the conditions of society, towards the promulgation of arbitrary systems of absolute social dogmas.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • We have another View of our first Parents in their Evening Discourses, which is full of pleasing Images and Sentiments suitable to their

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • In these kind of Discourses we pass'd many Hours; sometimes in Walks, sometimes in Arbours, and oftentimes in my Chamber, 'till very late Hours.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • The notion I use in my own research -- Jim Gee's concept of "Discourses" no surprise, since he's my major professor -- is quite similar.

    The MMO Divide 2004

  • He was not alone in desiring to make the Italian political moralist better known, for translations of the "Discourses" and "The Prince," with "some marginal animadversions noting and taxing his [Machiavelli's] errors," by E.

    The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford Henry Neville

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