The Prose Works of John Milton...H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... confesses why . " At the king's charge , " says he . O mercenary and chargeable advocate ! could you not afford to write a defence for Charles the father , whom you pretend to have been the best of kings , to Charles the son , the most ...
... confesses why . " At the king's charge , " says he . O mercenary and chargeable advocate ! could you not afford to write a defence for Charles the father , whom you pretend to have been the best of kings , to Charles the son , the most ...
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... confess I do not understand where his lordship says , - ' But that is not all ; for supposing there were no external difference , yet there is a difference between them , as several individuals in the same nature . ' For , first ...
... confess I do not understand where his lordship says , - ' But that is not all ; for supposing there were no external difference , yet there is a difference between them , as several individuals in the same nature . ' For , first ...
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... confess , that such things have been prac- tised ; for yourself have not the impudence to deny it ; but not by protestants upon a protestant king . As if he de- served the name of a protestant , that , in a letter to the pope , could ...
... confess , that such things have been prac- tised ; for yourself have not the impudence to deny it ; but not by protestants upon a protestant king . As if he de- served the name of a protestant , that , in a letter to the pope , could ...
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... confess , that many kings have come to an unnatural death ; some by the sword , some poisoned , some strangled , and some in a dungeon ; but for a king to be arraigned in a court of judicature , to be put to plead for his life , to have ...
... confess , that many kings have come to an unnatural death ; some by the sword , some poisoned , some strangled , and some in a dungeon ; but for a king to be arraigned in a court of judicature , to be put to plead for his life , to have ...
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... confess , in a more sedate temper of mind , so brave an action ; an action that might have become those famous heroes , of whom we read in former ages ; an action , by which they ennobled not only laws , and their execution , which seem ...
... confess , in a more sedate temper of mind , so brave an action ; an action that might have become those famous heroes , of whom we read in former ages ; an action , by which they ennobled not only laws , and their execution , which seem ...
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