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• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (London: Printed for John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1680), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (PDF and page images at CMU)
• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (second edition; London: Printed for R. Clavel, et al., 1695), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (third edition; London: Printed by T. W. for A. Churchill et al, 1720), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of Nicholas Machiavel (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Davies et al., 1762), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ellis Farneworth, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State to the Republic of Florence: Translated From the Originals, Illustrated with Notes, Annotations, Dissertations, and Several New Plans on the Art of War (second edition, corrected, in 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davies et al., 1775), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ellis Farneworth, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (new English translation; Brooklyn, NY: NOT BORED!, 2008), by Maurice Joly (HTML at notbored.org)
• Public Policy: Why Ethics Matters (2010), ed. by Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock, and David L. Eng
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML and PDF with commentary at ANU E Press
• What's the Matter with Liberalism? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Ronald Beiner (HTML at UC Press)
• Manual of Political Ethics, by Francis Lieber (page images at MOA)
• What is "National Honor"? The Challenge of the Reconstruction (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Leo Perla, contrib. by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Human Nature in Politics (third edition, republished 1929), by Graham Wallas (Gutenberg text)
• De Vorst (The Prince in Dutch; Leiden: C. J. Cyfveer, 1834), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by T. R. Roest van Limburg (multiple formats at Google)
• Diálogo en los Infiernos entre Maquiavelo y Montesquieu, o, La Política de Maquiavelo en el Siglo XIX (translated into Spanish; Buenos Aires: T. Real y Prado, 1898), by Maurice Joly, contrib. by Teodomiro Real y Prado
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Dialogue aux Enfers Entre Machiavel et Montesquieu: ou, La Politique de Machiavel aux XIXe Siècle (in French; Brussels: A. Mertens et fils, 1864), by Maurice Joly
  • multiple formats at Google
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Elements of Morality, Including Polity, by William Whewell (page images at MOA)
• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, by William Godwin (HTML at pitzer.edu)
• Human Nature in Politics (London: A. Constable and Co., 1908), by Graham Wallas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Practical Agitation (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900), by John Jay Chapman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by W. K. Marriott (multiple formats at theprincebookfree.com)
• The Prince (with two shorter works), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by W. K. Marriott (Gutenberg text)
• The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ninian Hill Thomson (HTML and PDF at Bartleby)

• On Civic Republicanism: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2016), ed. by Geoffrey C. Kellow and Neven Leddy
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Local Government Ethics Programs: A Resource for Ethics Commission Members, Local Officials, Attorneys, Journalists, and Students, and a Manual for Ethics Reform (second edition, c2013), by Robert Wechsler (multiple formats with commentary at cityethics.org)
• Neither Left Nor Right: Selected Columns, by Tibor R. Machan (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

• An A B C, for Baby Patriots (London: Dean and Son, 1899), by Mrs. Ernest Ames (page images at Florida)

• Ilocano Irrigation: The Corporate Resolution (Asian Studies at Hawaii #37; Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by Henry T. Lewis (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Opuscoli Morali di Leon Batista Alberti (in Italian; Venice: Appresso Francesco Franceschi, Sanese, 1568), by Leon Battista Alberti, ed. by Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gorgias (New York: Liberal Arts Press, c1952), by Plato, trans. by W. C. Helmbold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charmides, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Charmides, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
• The Critique of Practical Reason, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• De Officiis, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Walter Miller (HTML at stoics.com)
• The Distichs of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook, trans. by Wayland Johnson Chase (multieple formats at archive.org)
• Eudemian Ethics, by Aristotle (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Gorgias, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)
• Groundlaying: Kant's Search for the Highest Principle of Morality (German editions and English translations of Kants's Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, with commentary), by Immanuel Kant, ed. by Stephen Orr (multiple formats with commentary at appspot.com)
• The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. D. Ross
  • HTML with chapter headings at nothingistic.org
  • PDF at McMaster
• Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, trans. by H. Rackham (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, Newly Translated into English (third edition; London: Longmans, Green, 1879), by Aristotle, trans. by Robert Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1898), by Plutarch, ed. by A. R. Shilleto (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays (London: George Bell and Sons, 1908), by Plutarch, trans. by C. W. King (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Ad Lucilium Epistolae Morales (in Latin and English; 3 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1918-1925), by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, trans. by Richard M. Gummere
  • Volume I (introduction, and letters 1-65); multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (letters 66-92); multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (letters 93-124, with appendices and indexes); multiple formats at archive.org
• The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated; With a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (3 volumes; London: T. Tegg, 1845), by Ralph Cudworth, trans. by John Harrison, contrib. by Johann Lorenz Mosheim
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
• The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1887), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by W. Hastie (HTML and PDF files at libertyfund.org)
• Protagoras, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Protagoras, by Plato, trans. by W. R. M. Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

• The Conferences of John Cassian, by John Cassian, trans. by Edgar C. S. Gibson (HTML with commentary at osb.org)

• On Modesty, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

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