The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1848 - Essays |
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... liberty required the sacrifice , we are fully persuaded there were moments in his glorious career in which he who willingly encountered blindness for the Commonwealth would , with equal ardour , have encountered death . It was under the ...
... liberty required the sacrifice , we are fully persuaded there were moments in his glorious career in which he who willingly encountered blindness for the Commonwealth would , with equal ardour , have encountered death . It was under the ...
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... liberty and right of freeborn men to be governed as seems to them best . This , though it cannot but stand with plain reason , shall be made good also by Scripture : ( Deut . xvii . 14 :) " When thou art come into the land which the ...
... liberty and right of freeborn men to be governed as seems to them best . This , though it cannot but stand with plain reason , shall be made good also by Scripture : ( Deut . xvii . 14 :) " When thou art come into the land which the ...
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... liberty , which to have extorted , saith he , from Numa , or any of the good kings before , had not been seasonable . Nor was it in the former example done unlawfully ; for when Roboam had prepared a huge army to reduce the Israelites ...
... liberty , which to have extorted , saith he , from Numa , or any of the good kings before , had not been seasonable . Nor was it in the former example done unlawfully ; for when Roboam had prepared a huge army to reduce the Israelites ...
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... liberty therefore and right remaining in them , to reassume it to themselves , if by kings or magistrates it be abused ; or to dispose of it by any altera- tion , as they shall judge most conducing to the public good . We may from hence ...
... liberty therefore and right remaining in them , to reassume it to themselves , if by kings or magistrates it be abused ; or to dispose of it by any altera- tion , as they shall judge most conducing to the public good . We may from hence ...
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... liberty , to him offended , and to the law in his behalf , though born in the same womb , he is no better than a Turk , a Saracen , a heathen . This is gospel , and this was ever law among equals ; how much rather then in force against ...
... liberty , to him offended , and to the law in his behalf , though born in the same womb , he is no better than a Turk , a Saracen , a heathen . This is gospel , and this was ever law among equals ; how much rather then in force against ...
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