The Prose Works of John Milton: A defence of the people of England. A second defence of the people of England. EikonoklastesH.G. Bohn, 1848 - English prose literature |
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Page iii
... learned , the able , inferior in the scale of society to court - sycophants , or the routine intermeddlers with poli- tics . His indignation was roused at beholding the tranquillity of three kingdoms disturbed by the perverse ambition ...
... learned , the able , inferior in the scale of society to court - sycophants , or the routine intermeddlers with poli- tics . His indignation was roused at beholding the tranquillity of three kingdoms disturbed by the perverse ambition ...
Page vii
... learned to entertain lofty notions of his own intel- lectual powers , grew to despise and undervalue those of others , praising penuriously and seldom , because he knew that one good word from his pen was a passport to immortality . Had ...
... learned to entertain lofty notions of his own intel- lectual powers , grew to despise and undervalue those of others , praising penuriously and seldom , because he knew that one good word from his pen was a passport to immortality . Had ...
Page xi
... learned between the cook and the manciple , or more profoundly at the college audit , or the regent - house , or , to come to their deepest insight , at their patron's table . They would request us to endure still the rustling of their ...
... learned between the cook and the manciple , or more profoundly at the college audit , or the regent - house , or , to come to their deepest insight , at their patron's table . They would request us to endure still the rustling of their ...
Page xxii
... learned of him , to babble of those failings from which no mortal is free . From what has been said above may be inferred what were the prevailing opinions of Milton's age . Philosophy , ceasing to be spe- culative , applied itself to ...
... learned of him , to babble of those failings from which no mortal is free . From what has been said above may be inferred what were the prevailing opinions of Milton's age . Philosophy , ceasing to be spe- culative , applied itself to ...
Page xxiv
... learned to think so meanly of my countrymen , as not to believe that this island contains many myriads to whom truth , both in politics and religion , is precious as life itself . Let them only know in what secret or remote shrine it ...
... learned to think so meanly of my countrymen , as not to believe that this island contains many myriads to whom truth , both in politics and religion , is precious as life itself . Let them only know in what secret or remote shrine it ...
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