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  • In a later edition of History of a Voyage he added a lengthy new chapter titled “Of Cruelties Carried Out by the Turks, and other Peoples, and notably the Spanish, Much More Barbarous than even the Savages.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Richard Vestegan, a Catholic Dutch-English writer, published Theatre of the Cruelties on the Heretics of Our Time 1587, an account of horrific Protestant violence.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Cruelties well committed may be called those if it is permissible to use the word "well" of evil which are perpetrated once, for the need of securing one's power, and which afterwards are not persisted in, but are exchanged for measures as useful to the people as possible.

    Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011

  • Under the rubric of “French Cruelties Compared to Those of Savages and Turks,” Léry returned to France and recounted episodes of atrocities among Christians that included a Calvinist slaughter of Catholics.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Cruelties ill committed are those which increase rather than diminish with time.

    Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011

  • Cruelties ill committed are those which increase rather than diminish with time.

    Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011

  • Cruelties ill committed are those which increase rather than diminish with time.

    Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011

  • Cruelties well committed may be called those if it is permissible to use the word "well" of evil which are perpetrated once, for the need of securing one's power, and which afterwards are not persisted in, but are exchanged for measures as useful to the people as possible.

    Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011

  • Cruelties well committed may be called those if it is permissible to use the word "well" of evil which are perpetrated once, for the need of securing one's power, and which afterwards are not persisted in, but are exchanged for measures as useful to the people as possible.

    Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens Nicholas Carroll 2011

  • Richard Vestegan, a Catholic Dutch-English writer, published Theatre of the Cruelties on the Heretics of Our Time 1587, an account of horrific Protestant violence.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

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