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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... virtue , and opened a clearer insight into the moral nature and heroic sentiments of a man , in the brightness and continuance of whose fame every Englishman is in- terested . However this may be , few of those who have hitherto ...
... virtue , and opened a clearer insight into the moral nature and heroic sentiments of a man , in the brightness and continuance of whose fame every Englishman is in- terested . However this may be , few of those who have hitherto ...
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... virtue . The spirit of poetry is a spirit of power , which , in him who is pos- sessed by it , cannot fail to engender a consciousness of dignity . He feels that he bears within him mines richer than those of gold or diamonds , which ...
... virtue . The spirit of poetry is a spirit of power , which , in him who is pos- sessed by it , cannot fail to engender a consciousness of dignity . He feels that he bears within him mines richer than those of gold or diamonds , which ...
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... virtues , or enlarge his thoughts , or lift him above the clouds of prejudice , or provide for the innocent entertainment of his leisure . Milton was pre - eminently an utilitarian . In all he wrote he had a view to the public good ...
... virtues , or enlarge his thoughts , or lift him above the clouds of prejudice , or provide for the innocent entertainment of his leisure . Milton was pre - eminently an utilitarian . In all he wrote he had a view to the public good ...
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... virtue to order well one house ; but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest mettle . And certainly of no less a mind , nor of less excellence in another ...
... virtue to order well one house ; but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest mettle . And certainly of no less a mind , nor of less excellence in another ...
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... virtue , and that which springs from thence - magnanimity ; ( take heed of that ; ) and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end - likeness to God , which , in one word , we call godli- ness ; and that this is the ...
... virtue , and that which springs from thence - magnanimity ; ( take heed of that ; ) and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end - likeness to God , which , in one word , we call godli- ness ; and that this is the ...
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