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Page i
... Bishop of Winchester . EDITOR'S PREFACE . Ir is not my intention to introduce the present Discourse by a biographical memoir , though I am far from supposing that a new Life of Milton would , even now , be a work of supererogation . But ...
... Bishop of Winchester . EDITOR'S PREFACE . Ir is not my intention to introduce the present Discourse by a biographical memoir , though I am far from supposing that a new Life of Milton would , even now , be a work of supererogation . But ...
Page vii
... , in fact , regarded the promotion of this to the utmost as so much his duty , that , in his contest with the bishops , he urges as his principal motive , the undying reproaches of conscience to which silence EDITOR'S PREFACE . vii.
... , in fact , regarded the promotion of this to the utmost as so much his duty , that , in his contest with the bishops , he urges as his principal motive , the undying reproaches of conscience to which silence EDITOR'S PREFACE . vii.
Page ix
... bishops , whom throughout his first book he had incessantly worried , he , in his preface to the second , attacks the time - serving politicians , their supporters . " It is a work good and prudent , " says he , “ to be able to guide ...
... bishops , whom throughout his first book he had incessantly worried , he , in his preface to the second , attacks the time - serving politicians , their supporters . " It is a work good and prudent , " says he , “ to be able to guide ...
Page xxx
... bishops . To crown all , to sum up his numerous delinquencies in one fearful word , he insinuates , but hesitates to assert positively , that Milton was POOR - that he suffered hunger ; but that yet , in the midst of his indigence , his ...
... bishops . To crown all , to sum up his numerous delinquencies in one fearful word , he insinuates , but hesitates to assert positively , that Milton was POOR - that he suffered hunger ; but that yet , in the midst of his indigence , his ...
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... bishop of Worcester , comprehends nearly all that can be said . The doctor , unaccustomed to metaphysical disquisi- tion , puts forward his opinions with intrepid precipitation , and falls ac- cordingly into strange errors and confusion ...
... bishop of Worcester , comprehends nearly all that can be said . The doctor , unaccustomed to metaphysical disquisi- tion , puts forward his opinions with intrepid precipitation , and falls ac- cordingly into strange errors and confusion ...
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