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Page xii
... serpent meeting Fooled and beguiled , by him thou , I by thee , To trust thee from my side , imagined wise , Constant , mature , proof against all assaults , And understood not all was but a show Rather than xii EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... serpent meeting Fooled and beguiled , by him thou , I by thee , To trust thee from my side , imagined wise , Constant , mature , proof against all assaults , And understood not all was but a show Rather than xii EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Page xiii
... wise , that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine , create at last This novelty on earth , this fair defect Of Nature , and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine , Or find some other way to generate ...
... wise , that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine , create at last This novelty on earth , this fair defect Of Nature , and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine , Or find some other way to generate ...
Page xvi
... wise and skilful in these matters , men here- tofore of greatest name in virtue have esteemed it one of the high- est arcs that human contemplation , circling upward , can make from the globy sea whereon she stands ; but this is a deep ...
... wise and skilful in these matters , men here- tofore of greatest name in virtue have esteemed it one of the high- est arcs that human contemplation , circling upward , can make from the globy sea whereon she stands ; but this is a deep ...
Page xviii
... wise , however , not to be aware that a new form of polity , not in unison with the established prejudices and inherited sympathies of the people , though approved by their awakened judgment , might easily perish amidst the stormy ...
... wise , however , not to be aware that a new form of polity , not in unison with the established prejudices and inherited sympathies of the people , though approved by their awakened judgment , might easily perish amidst the stormy ...
Page xxi
... wise to make himself the slave of his subject . From time to time , therefore , as he pauses to enable the reader to take breath - for he required none himself - other subor- dinate questions are introduced and discussed pleasantly ; or ...
... wise to make himself the slave of his subject . From time to time , therefore , as he pauses to enable the reader to take breath - for he required none himself - other subor- dinate questions are introduced and discussed pleasantly ; or ...
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