Chapter

 1 I    | STATES, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have
 2 III  |     to be observed, he having held possession of Italy for
 3 IV   |    endured, the Romans always held an insecure possession;
 4 IV   |     ease with which Alexander held the Empire of Asia, or at
 5 V    |      the Romans. The Spartans held Athens and Thebes, establishing
 6 V    |   hold Greece as the Spartans held it, making it free and permitting
 7 V    |    hundred years she had been held in bondage by the Florentines.~
 8 VIII |     these dead, he seized and held the princedom of that city
 9 VIII |    and were afterwards boldly held by him with many hazards
10 VIII |      the year during which he held the principality, not only
11 XI   |      fortune, and they can be held without either; for they
12 XI   |     the principalities may be held no matter how their princes
13 XI   |  disturbance, nevertheless he held two things firm: the one,
14 XII  |     of resisting, and if they held to him they must obey him.
15 XVIII|   have done great things have held good faith of little account,
16 XIX  |      in the fourteen years he held the empire no one was ever
17 XX   |      and they will be tightly held to serve the prince with
18 XXI  |     fear of hindrance, for he held the minds of the barons