The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Page xiii
... truth of which every man who attentively reads will be answerable . And he who can rise from the contemplation of this portrait , without intense love and admiration for the great and godlike spirit it represents , must be cased more ...
... truth of which every man who attentively reads will be answerable . And he who can rise from the contemplation of this portrait , without intense love and admiration for the great and godlike spirit it represents , must be cased more ...
Page xiv
... truths may prove prejudicial to society ; which , though they intend it not , is a most impious and unphilo- sophical notion , for it supposes God to be in contradiction with himself , to have established laws and relations which it ...
... truths may prove prejudicial to society ; which , though they intend it not , is a most impious and unphilo- sophical notion , for it supposes God to be in contradiction with himself , to have established laws and relations which it ...
Page xx
... truth of the above doctrine , and vindicate his coun- trymen for having reduced his principles to action , were the prime objects of his Eikonoklastes , and Defence of the People of Eng- land . The former treatise , intended to work ...
... truth of the above doctrine , and vindicate his coun- trymen for having reduced his principles to action , were the prime objects of his Eikonoklastes , and Defence of the People of Eng- land . The former treatise , intended to work ...
Page xxi
... truths . He was too wise to make himself the slave of his subject . From time to time , therefore , as he pauses to enable the reader to take breath - for he required none himself - other subor- dinate questions are introduced and ...
... truths . He was too wise to make himself the slave of his subject . From time to time , therefore , as he pauses to enable the reader to take breath - for he required none himself - other subor- dinate questions are introduced and ...
Page xxii
... truth still more than I love Milton - his language is in many places coarse and offensive , such as I read with pain , and sincerely wish away - that our great , and , save in this , almost perfect author , might be everything the twin ...
... truth still more than I love Milton - his language is in many places coarse and offensive , such as I read with pain , and sincerely wish away - that our great , and , save in this , almost perfect author , might be everything the twin ...
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