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Page ii
... never forget they are men and citizens . On the contrary , in their peacefullest and most retired moments , the love of humanity should be with them , to direct the lightnings of their genius against the oppressors of man- kind ...
... never forget they are men and citizens . On the contrary , in their peacefullest and most retired moments , the love of humanity should be with them , to direct the lightnings of their genius against the oppressors of man- kind ...
Page iii
... never mistake for greatness the mere possession of the trappings of state , or confound regal pomp with genuine grandeur , which can have no existence independently of virtue . The spirit of poetry is a spirit of power , which , in him ...
... never mistake for greatness the mere possession of the trappings of state , or confound regal pomp with genuine grandeur , which can have no existence independently of virtue . The spirit of poetry is a spirit of power , which , in him ...
Page xxxvi
... never did , but might have done with good authority , since the Scrip- ture tells us that " all men are equal before God . " Then he is said to have " delighted himself with the belief that he had shortened Salmasius's life : " Milton ...
... never did , but might have done with good authority , since the Scrip- ture tells us that " all men are equal before God . " Then he is said to have " delighted himself with the belief that he had shortened Salmasius's life : " Milton ...
Page xxxix
... never so truly , as when the argument and his depraved temper met together : witness his Paradise Lost , where he makes the devil - who , though fallen , had not given heaven for lost - speak at that rate himself would have done of the ...
... never so truly , as when the argument and his depraved temper met together : witness his Paradise Lost , where he makes the devil - who , though fallen , had not given heaven for lost - speak at that rate himself would have done of the ...
Page 17
... never had any such amongst us as you describe ; they that we call independents , are only such as hold that no classis or synods have a superiority over any particular church , and that therefore they ought all to be plucked up by the ...
... never had any such amongst us as you describe ; they that we call independents , are only such as hold that no classis or synods have a superiority over any particular church , and that therefore they ought all to be plucked up by the ...
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