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1 I, I | provinces.~That they might be better able to avenge themselves
2 II, I | considered that it would be better to effect the reunion of
3 II, III | of so good a result, be better to lay down their arms than,
4 II, III | time, and that it would be better to do so then than delay
5 II, III | were more peaceable and better disposed, it appeared a
6 II, VI | not being able to adopt a better expedient, they made use
7 II, VIII| they could not devise any better plan, knowing the power
8 II, VIII| finding they could not do better, that on the following morning
9 II, VIII| his person. In order the better to defend himself against
10 II, VIII| the cultivation of their better feelings, and strove rather
11 II, I | bishop thought it would be better to act kindly toward their
12 II, I | Rubaconte Bridge, but no better success resulting, they
13 III, I | ground to hope that, with better government, our city will
14 III, I | city will be attended with better fortune; for the malignity
15 III, I | found that most men are better adapted to pursue a good
16 III, II | the other hand, thought it better to defer, since they would
17 III, II | either have greater virtue or better fortune than himself.” And
18 III, V | Puccio and a few others of better quality. The honors of government
19 III, VII | moderation; for it would be much better to enjoy an imperfect victory
20 IV, I | Upon this Filippo, the better to conceal his purpose,
21 IV, I | manifest, it would still be better to wait and let him commence
22 IV, I | enemy in their houses, and better to go and seek him; that
23 IV, II | restrained by greater force or better regulations, appoint the
24 IV, III | insufficient, or he found better elsewhere; for quite suddenly
25 IV, IV | possible; for there was no better method of reducing Lucca
26 IV, V | by fear rather than any better motive, fled to Pistoia,
27 IV, VI | as follows: “It would be better for thee and thy house,
28 IV, VI | that account, and they in a better; for were it to come either
29 IV, VII | it would have been much better for them to have done nothing
30 IV, VII | gentle, and humane person, better adapted for literary pursuits
31 IV, VII | Ridolfo Peruzzi, and no better course being open to him,
32 V, III | of this, that seeing no better course to adopt, they complied
33 V, III | defense, in order to have a better ground for requesting assistance,
34 V, IV | should ourselves have been in better condition, and your republic
35 V, V | lives and so rich a city for better fortune, than by endeavoring
36 V, VI | Venetians. In order the better to become acquainted with
37 VI, II | to him thus: “No one can better advise you in this matter
38 VI, IV | therefore considered it better for the republic of Florence
39 VI, IV | To attain this he saw no better means than to refrain from
40 VI, V | enabled the city to make better provision for places of
41 VI, VI | thought he could not do better than deliver his country
42 VII, I | he replied that, “it was better to injure the city, than
43 VII, III | principle.~Diotisalvi, the better to conceal his design, frequently
44 VII, III | for peace, it would be far better to be in a condition to
45 VII, V | being unable to obtain better terms, submitted to the
46 VII, V(2)| A lean peace is better than a fat victory.~
47 VIII, I | and therefore it would be better to wait till Lorenzo went
48 VIII, I | Florence, as they would thus be better able to conceal their design,
49 VIII, IV | some new alliance to give a better turn to their affairs. They
50 VIII, VI | afterward, that it would be better to obtain Niccolo Vitello
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