Book, Chapter
1 I, IV | PATRIMONY OF THE CHURCH. The ambition of the Roman people caused
2 I, IV | that he might exercise that ambition against Mohammed, which
3 I, V | others moved by their own ambition, were continually calling
4 I, V | openly exhibited his own ambition; and, under pretense of
5 I, V | against Christians for private ambition, ceased to do the will of
6 II, VIII| to lead you, blinded by ambition, to such a point that, unable
7 II, VIII| Florence, by her factions and ambition, had deprived herself of
8 II, VIII| himself, not from his own ambition, but at the entreaty of
9 III, I | which was renewed by the ambition of the Ricci for his destruction,
10 III, I | of their own avarice or ambition; and from 1356, when this
11 III, I | gratification of their own ambition, we have thought that as
12 III, I | men follow them through ambition and avarice, and necessity
13 III, I | pride and insupportable ambition had been regarded as the
14 III, I | for we find the pride and ambition of the nobility are not
15 III, I | overcome by restraining the ambition and annulling the ordinances
16 III, II | contest, commenced by the ambition of the legate, was sustained
17 III, III | we should overcome your ambition. But we perceive from experience
18 III, IV | either from motives of ambition (being desirous of remaining
19 III, IV | possessed either malice or ambition, the republic would have
20 III, V | minor artificers, by the ambition of the Ricci and the Albizzi;
21 III, VI | many others, either for ambition or as a means for their
22 III, VII | that if Veri had had more ambition than integrity he might
23 IV, I | complaints, and all condemned the ambition and avarice of the great,
24 IV, IV | to occasion a new war, if ambition had not again provoked one.
25 IV, IV | republic, or induced by his own ambition and the expectation of being
26 IV, VI | other citizen; or if the ambition of his adversaries compelled
27 V, I | the count was induced by ambition: so that Niccolo assailed
28 V, I | other obstacle to their ambition so great as the union of
29 V, II | hereditary hatred and blind ambition, and still more, by the
30 V, III | our weakness and their own ambition; for the one gives them
31 V, III | own ill fortune and their ambition; for we could not have refused
32 V, III | than to pay him, for the ambition of men is boundless, and
33 V, IV | his territories, and the ambition of the duke and the Venetians
34 V, IV | if instigated by his own ambition to do so.~When the agreement
35 V, IV | could not subserve the ambition of Filippo. The pope giving
36 VI, I | had become so unsettled by ambition, and the Venetians’ by jealousy,
37 VI, II | have the same objects of ambition in view, it is easy to form
38 VI, II | determination, were obviated by the ambition of the Venetians, who, seeing
39 VI, III | defend themselves against the ambition of the Venetians, they could
40 VI, III | had discovered the count’s ambition, and the end he had in view;
41 VI, IV | the one desiring it from ambition, the other from fear), they
42 VI, IV | thy pride, cruelty, and ambition, come hither, not to ask
43 VI, IV | advantage would satisfy thy ambition. Alas! those who grasp at
44 VI, IV | deserved by thee. And though ambition should blind thine eyes,
45 VI, V | Italy, of which some from ambition and others from avarice
46 VI, V | instigated either by his own ambition or the entreaties of the
47 VI, VI | frequently broken by the ambition of the mercenary troops.
48 VI, VII | apprehensive of the pope, whose ambition he well knew, and who seeing
49 VII, I | vanquished domestic and civil ambition, but humbled the pride of
50 VII, II | instigated rather by his own ambition than by attachment to Piero
51 VII, IV | him from restraining their ambition. However, to relieve his
52 VII, IV | deceived, unacquainted with the ambition of mankind, and least of
53 VII, V | he suspected the pope’s ambition, and was apprehensive of
54 VII, VI | such inordinate pride and ambition, that the pontificate seemed
55 VII, VI | defend themselves against the ambition of their enemies; and having
56 VIII, V | and because the faults and ambition of others had rendered them
57 VIII, VII | satisfy or restrain the ambition of Lodovico Sforza, tutor
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