The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Page vi
... less courageous reader is stopped at the threshold . He cannot be persuaded that a man who stands at the door of his trea- tise , quaintly disguised in a muffler of hard words , and brandishing a syllogism in his fist , can intend very ...
... less courageous reader is stopped at the threshold . He cannot be persuaded that a man who stands at the door of his trea- tise , quaintly disguised in a muffler of hard words , and brandishing a syllogism in his fist , can intend very ...
Page viii
... less fierce and uncompromising manner . He might have spoken or written , indeed , against the abuses of church- government ; but he would probably have exhibited in his opposition more of courtesy , more of that polished suavity of ...
... less fierce and uncompromising manner . He might have spoken or written , indeed , against the abuses of church- government ; but he would probably have exhibited in his opposition more of courtesy , more of that polished suavity of ...
Page ix
... less a mind , nor of less excellence in another way , were they who by writing laid the solid and true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more ...
... less a mind , nor of less excellence in another way , were they who by writing laid the solid and true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more ...
Page xvi
... less pain to conjecture than to have experience . " 66 In the Apology for his Early Life and Writings , Milton glances at the ideas of love he had gathered out of Plato and Xenophon ; and in my note on the place , I have translated a ...
... less pain to conjecture than to have experience . " 66 In the Apology for his Early Life and Writings , Milton glances at the ideas of love he had gathered out of Plato and Xenophon ; and in my note on the place , I have translated a ...
Page xxii
... less daring casts it in the astonished faces of all who oppose him . But he sometimes , as I have already hinted , exercises his power unskilfully . Hence , it must be admitted - for I love truth still more than I love Milton - his ...
... less daring casts it in the astonished faces of all who oppose him . But he sometimes , as I have already hinted , exercises his power unskilfully . Hence , it must be admitted - for I love truth still more than I love Milton - his ...
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