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 1    Int       |            apparently retired from public life, his letters show the
 2    Int       |          take Book I., Chap. XV.: “Public affairs are easily managed
 3      I,  IV  |            of Canterbury, although public report had slandered him
 4     II,  II  |           which was applied to the public use, another to the Capitani,
 5     II,  III |      composed—Reform of Government—Public buildings—The prosperous
 6     II,  III |          himself, and ordered that public report should be taken as
 7     II,  III |          same period commenced the public prisons. These buildings
 8     II,  IV  |     Florence to hold festivals and public rejoicings throughout the
 9     II,  IV  |          had the management of the public money, of applying it to
10     II,  VII |            every street corner and public place they were openly censured,
11     II,  VIII|         could not remember it, the public buildings, the halls of
12     II,  VIII|          with whom he consulted on public affairs. He imposed burdensome
13     II,  VIII|         them under the pretense of public business; and having drawn
14     II,  VIII|          of the provost and of the public chamber; pillaged the houses
15    III,  I   |          even for consideration of public business, without being
16    III,  I   |            the palace, not for any public utility, but only for the
17    III,  I   |            authoritatively use the public force.~“The common corruption
18    III,  I   |           and pursued, not for the public good, not for the common
19    III,  II  |       other houses, either through public hatred, or private malice,
20    III,  II  |            plunder, broke open the public prisons, and then sacked
21    III,  II  |          for safety. Nor would the public chambers have escaped these
22    III,  V   |            city. This state of the public mind strengthened the divisions
23    III,  VI  |         not bear to be deprived of public honors; for the recovery
24    III,  VI  |        which served to exhibit the public and private wealth of the
25    III,  VII |         inform him of the state of public feeling; for Antonio de’
26     IV,  I   |            first blow at the duke, public opinion would be as favorable
27     IV,  II  |          encouraged men to censure public actions, and allowed those
28     IV,  IV  |      prosperity; never applied the public money to his own uses, but
29     IV,  IV  |             but contributed to the public wealth. He was courteous
30     IV,  IV  |      Florentines on account of his public as well as personal injuries,
31     IV,  V   |          in his service, to make a public request for permission to
32     IV,  V   |         the people, induced by the public voice, and pressed by the
33     IV,  VI  |          engaged more earnestly in public affairs, and conducted himself
34     IV,  VI  |           persons only, but to the public; and not to Florentines
35     IV,  VI  |           by being indebted to the public, be incapacitated for holding
36     IV,  VII |       charge of having applied the public money to his own use. He
37      V,  III |         they were assembled in the public piazza, and some of the
38      V,  III |     promise did not invalidate any public engagement, and that he
39     VI,  VII |            was neglected either in public or private, to show their
40    VII,  I   |         power in two ways; the one public, the other private. Influence
41    VII,  I   |         undeserved honors; or with public games and entertainments
42    VII,  I   |     because it is founded upon the public good, and not upon private
43    VII,  I   |          acquired his influence by public services; so that he had
44    VII,  I   |           to avail himself both of public and private means, had many
45    VII,  I   |         health unable to attend to public affairs as formerly, Florence
46    VII,  I   | participate in what had been done, public processions were made and
47    VII,  I   |         evident from the number of public edifices he erected; for
48    VII,  I   |          those who assisted him in public business, but his agents
49    VII,  I   |         unable to attend either to public or private business. On
50    VII,  I   |           from attending either to public or private affairs, as he
51    VII,  I   |          St. Lorenzo, on which, by public decree, he was inscribed, “
52    VII,  II  |           to appease the disorders—Public spectacles —Projects of
53    VII,  II  |          from this demand, to make public resistance in the councils,
54    VII,  II  |          and inconsistent with the public liberty. Piero, on the contrary,
55    VII,  II  |         prevent him from using the public money his ruin must ensue.
56    VII,  III |        there betrayed; for, during public worship and solemn supplications,
57    VII,  IV  |            oppress all others with public burdens, while you yourselves
58    VII,  IV  |            them, and enjoy all the public offices of profit you must
59    VII,  V   |           wealth discovered in the public lands should be converted
60    VII,  VI  |     occasion of some procession or public festivity when there would
61   VIII,  II  |            persecuted, either from public or private motives, flee
62   VIII,  II  |     injuring us. If they attribute public grievances to ourselves (
63   VIII,  II  |           private animosities with public grievances. Hence it is
64   VIII,  III |          not to be defended at the public expense. The Florentines,
65   VIII,  III |            honorably buried at the public expense, provision was made
66   VIII,  IV  |        private circles, but in the public councils; and one individual
67   VIII,  IV  |           influence, the spirit of public discourse entirely changed
68   VIII,  VI  |           defense, for he had both public and private reasons for