The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1848 - Essays |
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... writer , has traced more laboriously , with the help of our modern voyagers and travellers , the various steps by which man rises from a state of barbarism to the enjoyment of just laws and a free government . ( Origine des Loix , t . i ...
... writer , has traced more laboriously , with the help of our modern voyagers and travellers , the various steps by which man rises from a state of barbarism to the enjoyment of just laws and a free government . ( Origine des Loix , t . i ...
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... writes in the fourth of his Politics , chap . x . that " monarchy unaccountable is the worst sort of tyranny , and least of all to be endured by free - born men . " And surely no Christian prince , not drunk with high mind , and prouder ...
... writes in the fourth of his Politics , chap . x . that " monarchy unaccountable is the worst sort of tyranny , and least of all to be endured by free - born men . " And surely no Christian prince , not drunk with high mind , and prouder ...
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... write himself accountable to none but God , when emperors in their own imperial statutes have written and decreed themselves accountable to law ? And indeed where such account is not feared , he that bids a man reign over him above law ...
... write himself accountable to none but God , when emperors in their own imperial statutes have written and decreed themselves accountable to law ? And indeed where such account is not feared , he that bids a man reign over him above law ...
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... writer , " they would say , perhaps , a statute toucheth not the king , except he be expressly named . So would I say also if I could find it declared in ancient parliaments , before the times came to be so tainted with the king's evil ...
... writer , " they would say , perhaps , a statute toucheth not the king , except he be expressly named . So would I say also if I could find it declared in ancient parliaments , before the times came to be so tainted with the king's evil ...
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... write to Calvin and other learned men for their judgments in that question , refused , alleging , that both himself was fully resolved in conscience , and had heard their judgments , and had the same opinion under handwriting of many ...
... write to Calvin and other learned men for their judgments in that question , refused , alleging , that both himself was fully resolved in conscience , and had heard their judgments , and had the same opinion under handwriting of many ...
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