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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... princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banners of salvation ; the martyrs , with the irresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of dark- ness , and scorning the fiery rage of the old red dragon . " The Long ...
... princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banners of salvation ; the martyrs , with the irresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of dark- ness , and scorning the fiery rage of the old red dragon . " The Long ...
Page xix
... prince may be guilty of crimes by the commission of which he for- feits his kingly privilege , degenerates into a tyrant ... princes , who having witnessed with awful amazement the conduct of the people of Eng- land , bringing their late ...
... prince may be guilty of crimes by the commission of which he for- feits his kingly privilege , degenerates into a tyrant ... princes , who having witnessed with awful amazement the conduct of the people of Eng- land , bringing their late ...
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... princes concurred with him in his political 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 ...
... princes concurred with him in his political 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 ...
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John Milton. cepted of a pension from a prince of the house of Hanover , is sus- pected of having been secretly a Jacobite . He was , besides , consti- tutionally averse from the sportive pranks of freedom , which by demanding the ...
John Milton. cepted of a pension from a prince of the house of Hanover , is sus- pected of having been secretly a Jacobite . He was , besides , consti- tutionally averse from the sportive pranks of freedom , which by demanding the ...
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... princes . In the mean time , as for those fierce , those steel - hearted men , that , you say , take on for , and bewail so pitifully , the lamentable and wonderful death I know not who ; them I say , together with their tinkling ...
... princes . In the mean time , as for those fierce , those steel - hearted men , that , you say , take on for , and bewail so pitifully , the lamentable and wonderful death I know not who ; them I say , together with their tinkling ...
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