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 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 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 xxiii
... less powerful than that of the great epic poet . Hitherto , however , Milton has been since his own times chiefly influential as a poet ; his prose works having , as I observed above , been from that time to this comparatively neglected ...
... less powerful than that of the great epic poet . Hitherto , however , Milton has been since his own times chiefly influential as a poet ; his prose works having , as I observed above , been from that time to this comparatively neglected ...
Page xxix
... less acrimony the illustrious dead . With respect to myself , no example is necessary to cause me to speak of ... less broadly insinuated , though introduced with inferior skill ; but , in several points , no less likely in modern times ...
... less acrimony the illustrious dead . With respect to myself , no example is necessary to cause me to speak of ... less broadly insinuated , though introduced with inferior skill ; but , in several points , no less likely in modern times ...
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... less in so famous a commonwealth as that of Holland , and the most eminent university there : but seems to have been penned by some despicable slave , that lay rotting in a prison , or a dungeon . If whatever a king has a mind to do ...
... less in so famous a commonwealth as that of Holland , and the most eminent university there : but seems to have been penned by some despicable slave , that lay rotting in a prison , or a dungeon . If whatever a king has a mind to do ...
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