What is "machiavel"

Usage examples of "machiavel".

The squire, though perhaps he had never read Machiavel, was, however, in many points, a perfect politician.

Jones was wishing the ground to sink under him, or the house to fall on his head, when an odd accident freed him from an embarrassment, out of which neither the eloquence of a Cicero, nor the politics of a Machiavel, could have delivered him, without utter disgrace.

I will tread under foot this monster of knavish and diabolic statecraft, and all Europe shall see that a German prince is the first to break a lance against this Machiavel, who is making the people the slaves of princes.

Italian princes, of whom Machiavel speaks, only play the part of men before their servants.

Machiavel, if Machiavel had not known that an appearance of morals and religion are useful in society.

Now it was the character of Sir Edward Grey, a cunning Machiavel, whose only aim was to set Europe by the ears and make neighbours fall out.

I have thought that our great masters in theory and practice, Machiavel and Talleyrand, were hardly more, on a large scale.

Gifford, the old Puritans, who felt and asserted, however extravagantly, that there was an eternal law which was above all Borgias and Machiavels, Stuarts and Fletchers, have surely a right to a fair trial.

Among traders and manufacturers, businessfolk and apprentices, students and machiavels, he was least likely to draw attention.

And therefore we applaud not the judgment of Machiavel, that Christianity makes men cowards or that with the confidence of but half dying, the despised virtues of patience and humility, have abased the spirits of men, which Pagan principles exalted, but rather regulated the wildenesse of audacities, in the attempts, grounds, and eternall sequels of death.

I confess every Country hath its Machiavel, every Age its Lucian, whereof common Heads must not hear, nor more advanced Judgments too rashly venture on: it is the Rhetorick of Satan, and may pervert a loose or prejudicate belief.