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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... opinion ; and defend that there is a peculiar comfort in the married state which no other society affords . No mortal nature can endure either in the actions of religion , or study of wisdom , without sometime slackening the cords of ...
... opinion ; and defend that there is a peculiar comfort in the married state which no other society affords . No mortal nature can endure either in the actions of religion , or study of wisdom , without sometime slackening the cords of ...
Page xx
... opinions . And well might they concur with him , for , so far as they were lawful monarchs , bent on exercising conscien- tiously and justly the authority entrusted to them for the people's good , Milton contended strenuously for their ...
... opinions . And well might they concur with him , for , so far as they were lawful monarchs , bent on exercising conscien- tiously and justly the authority entrusted to them for the people's good , Milton contended strenuously for their ...
Page xxiv
... England ! Here only , within the limits of the Old World , is it lawful to express an honest opinion , or to arraign , when truth requires it , the im- policy , or improvidence , or lukewarmness of our rulers Xxiv EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... England ! Here only , within the limits of the Old World , is it lawful to express an honest opinion , or to arraign , when truth requires it , the im- policy , or improvidence , or lukewarmness of our rulers Xxiv EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Page xxix
... opinions in reality based upon a cloud , would have seriously ruffled his gravity . He loved to exercise , in his own person , a sort of dictatorship ; and , with a consistency not often found in such petty despots , was willing the ...
... opinions in reality based upon a cloud , would have seriously ruffled his gravity . He loved to exercise , in his own person , a sort of dictatorship ; and , with a consistency not often found in such petty despots , was willing the ...
Page xxxv
... opinion of himself was , perhaps , mingled with some contempt for others ; " for scarcely any man ever wrote so much and praised so few . " And , lest the reader should forget it , he again repeats that he is very frugal of his praise ...
... opinion of himself was , perhaps , mingled with some contempt for others ; " for scarcely any man ever wrote so much and praised so few . " And , lest the reader should forget it , he again repeats that he is very frugal of his praise ...
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