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Page ix
... justice and a regard for the public good shall become the di- recting principles of government , the great business of the nation will be taken out of their hands to be confided to others more worthy . Turning aside , therefore , for a ...
... justice and a regard for the public good shall become the di- recting principles of government , the great business of the nation will be taken out of their hands to be confided to others more worthy . Turning aside , therefore , for a ...
Page xvii
... justice had prepared For those rebellious , here their prison ordained In utter darkness , and their portion set As far removed from God and light of heaven As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole . " ( † ) " To banish for ever ...
... justice had prepared For those rebellious , here their prison ordained In utter darkness , and their portion set As far removed from God and light of heaven As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole . " ( † ) " To banish for ever ...
Page xx
... justice , like God , whose offspring she is , knows no respect of persons , but visits on all transgressors of the law the penalty which law exacts from all transgressors . He thought that falsehood , perfidy , breach of oaths ...
... justice , like God , whose offspring she is , knows no respect of persons , but visits on all transgressors of the law the penalty which law exacts from all transgressors . He thought that falsehood , perfidy , breach of oaths ...
Page xxvii
... justice to those who can no longer actively vindicate them- selves . But this policy , however laudable it may be considered by others , I can neither admire nor adopt . In the common intercourse of life we are grateful to whomsoever ...
... justice to those who can no longer actively vindicate them- selves . But this policy , however laudable it may be considered by others , I can neither admire nor adopt . In the common intercourse of life we are grateful to whomsoever ...
Page xxviii
... justice to Paradise Lost , -which had also , until then , expe- rienced a considerable share of neglect , ―took no pains to rescue the prose treatises from the same fate . But the causes that had at first thrown them into the shade were ...
... justice to Paradise Lost , -which had also , until then , expe- rienced a considerable share of neglect , ―took no pains to rescue the prose treatises from the same fate . But the causes that had at first thrown them into the shade were ...
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