The Prose Works of John Milton...H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... arms his former subjects against him . In this , however , he advances no new doctrine ; nothing , as it should seem , in the least at variance with the practice and opinions of all nations . The difficulty always is to determine when a ...
... arms his former subjects against him . In this , however , he advances no new doctrine ; nothing , as it should seem , in the least at variance with the practice and opinions of all nations . The difficulty always is to determine when a ...
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... arms ) those glorious performances of theirs , ( whose opinion of me I take as a very great honour , that they should pitch upon me before others to be serviceable in this kind of those most valiant deliverers of my native country ; and ...
... arms ) those glorious performances of theirs , ( whose opinion of me I take as a very great honour , that they should pitch upon me before others to be serviceable in this kind of those most valiant deliverers of my native country ; and ...
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... amongst us , will bear . What state soever is pestered with factions , and defends itself by force of arms , is very just in having regard to those only that are sound and untainted , and in overlooking or secluding the 14 PREFACE .
... amongst us , will bear . What state soever is pestered with factions , and defends itself by force of arms , is very just in having regard to those only that are sound and untainted , and in overlooking or secluding the 14 PREFACE .
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... arms , and sounding an alarm , as it were , you should be able so much as to influence a king amongst boys at play ; especially , with so shrill a voice , and unsavoury breath , that I believe , if you were to have been the trumpeter ...
... arms , and sounding an alarm , as it were , you should be able so much as to influence a king amongst boys at play ; especially , with so shrill a voice , and unsavoury breath , that I believe , if you were to have been the trumpeter ...
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... arms , when the other by their votes had almost ruined it . Then he relates a great many things in a doleful lamentable strain ; but he does it so senselessly , that he seems rather to beg of his readers , that they would be sorrowful ...
... arms , when the other by their votes had almost ruined it . Then he relates a great many things in a doleful lamentable strain ; but he does it so senselessly , that he seems rather to beg of his readers , that they would be sorrowful ...
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