The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Page ix
... judgment and learning , could not fail to perceive how ordinary statesmen , with their timid and barren brains , misdirect the energies of the people , and convert that government which was designed to promote the good of all , into an ...
... judgment and learning , could not fail to perceive how ordinary statesmen , with their timid and barren brains , misdirect the energies of the people , and convert that government which was designed to promote the good of all , into an ...
Page xviii
... judgment , might easily perish amidst the stormy violence which had accompanied its birth . Had he calculated , therefore , like a selfish worldling , as the example of too many might have been his warrant for doing , he would have ...
... judgment , might easily perish amidst the stormy violence which had accompanied its birth . Had he calculated , therefore , like a selfish worldling , as the example of too many might have been his warrant for doing , he would have ...
Page xxxix
... judgment , that to write and be scurrilous were the same with him ) is dead , ' t is true , and should have been forgotten by me , but that in this new impression he yet speaketh . ' And will speak in repeated impressions , when his ...
... judgment , that to write and be scurrilous were the same with him ) is dead , ' t is true , and should have been forgotten by me , but that in this new impression he yet speaketh . ' And will speak in repeated impressions , when his ...
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... judgment was given , and all these matters transacted ; and shall easily defend my valiant and worthy countrymen ( who have extremely well deserved of all subjects and nations in the world ) from the most wicked calumnies both of ...
... judgment was given , and all these matters transacted ; and shall easily defend my valiant and worthy countrymen ( who have extremely well deserved of all subjects and nations in the world ) from the most wicked calumnies both of ...
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... judgment upon the king himself , or rather upon an enemy who had been their king , caught as it were in a net by his own laws , ( who alone of all mortals challenged to himself im- punity by a divine right , ) and scrupled not to ...
... judgment upon the king himself , or rather upon an enemy who had been their king , caught as it were in a net by his own laws , ( who alone of all mortals challenged to himself im- punity by a divine right , ) and scrupled not to ...
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