Machiavelism

• “Machiavelism, — all these things impressed Lucien unawares.”

  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

• “Then, with an intuitive scoundrelism, or Machiavelism, surprising in one of my age, I went and stood in the door, and looked about me in the rooms, though I saw nothing; for both mind and eyes hovered about that fateful green cloth.”

  The Magic Skin

• “We begin to be cured of Machiavelism, and recover from it every day.”

  Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat

• “Talleyrand-Metternich or Thiers; and modern statesmanship and modern diplomacy show pale beside the Machiavelism of the _coulisses_.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844

• “Machiavelism, but to a "laudable desire to connect the actions of one's country with something more stable than interest.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863

• “The battle of Gemappe was gained when the Brissotin faction had enthroned itself on the ruins of a constitution, which the armies were said to adore with enthusiasm: by what sudden inspiration were their affections transferred to another form of government? or will any one pretend that they really understood the democratic Machiavelism which they were to propagate in Brabant?”

  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

• “In the sections, "War-Worship," "Ruthlessness" and "Machiavelism," are grouped evidences of the methods of force and fraud by which it was hoped that these ambitions were to be realized.”

  Gems (?) of German Thought

• “Has the relentless Necessity of Comte erected its huge mill on this continent, to grimly grind out the annual quantity of patriotism, tyranny, noble self-abnegation, or Machiavelism, in the prescribed, invariable ratio of "Sociology?”

  Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice

• “Eminence with him; and his conversation was a kind of Borgia Brocade shot with Machiavelism.”

  The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...

• “But what produced the most beneficial effects on the new people, and excited the greatest indignation and despair among the old class, were some volumes which the Government, with shocking Machiavelism, bribed some needy scions of nobility to scribble, and which revealed certain secrets vainly believed to be quite sacred and inviolable.”

  The Voyage of Captain Popanilla

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