In the hands of able captains, like Francesco Sforza or Piccinino, these mercenary troops became moving despotisms, draining the country of its wealth, and always eager to fasten and found tyrannies upon the provinces they had been summoned to defend. [Please select]
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In Spain and Naples the old Bourbon families were re-instated, and the former despotisms renewed. [Please select]
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Others are petty despotisms, created and maintained by military force. [Please select]
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Did I not seek to plant liberty in Italy and destroy the despotisms of German princes. [Please select]
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The Italian revolution in its origin dates back as early as 1820, when the secret societies were formed--especially that of the Carbonari--with a view to shake the existing despotisms. [Please select]
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He approved of a limited monarchy, like that of England, instead of the corrupt despotisms which existed in most of the Italian peninsula. [Please select]
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