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Page xi
... judge and interpose in temporal causes , however pretended ecclesiastical . Do they not hoard up pelf , seek to be potent in secular strength , in state affairs , in lands , lordships , and domains , to sway and carry all before them in ...
... judge and interpose in temporal causes , however pretended ecclesiastical . Do they not hoard up pelf , seek to be potent in secular strength , in state affairs , in lands , lordships , and domains , to sway and carry all before them in ...
Page xiii
... judges , as declamation . But here , at least , he does not declaim . He reasons , and supports his reasoning by so many authorities and examples , fetched from the Scriptures , or from the most unobjectionable authors of ancient and ...
... judges , as declamation . But here , at least , he does not declaim . He reasons , and supports his reasoning by so many authorities and examples , fetched from the Scriptures , or from the most unobjectionable authors of ancient and ...
Page xxxv
... judges against his opponent . Johnson has recourse to this hackneyed . trick , where he insinuates that Milton's high opinion of himself was , perhaps , mingled with some contempt for others ; " for scarcely any man ever wrote so much ...
... judges against his opponent . Johnson has recourse to this hackneyed . trick , where he insinuates that Milton's high opinion of himself was , perhaps , mingled with some contempt for others ; " for scarcely any man ever wrote so much ...
Page 7
... judges , where perhaps you may not hear those little applauses , which you used to be so fond of in your school . But why this royal defence dedicated to the king's own son ? We need not put him to the torture ; he confesses why . " At ...
... judges , where perhaps you may not hear those little applauses , which you used to be so fond of in your school . But why this royal defence dedicated to the king's own son ? We need not put him to the torture ; he confesses why . " At ...
Page 31
... judge all , but be judged of none . " Nor can I persuade my- self , that there ever was any one person besides Sal- masius of so slavish a spirit , as to assert the outrageous enormities of tyrants to be the rights of kings . amongst us ...
... judge all , but be judged of none . " Nor can I persuade my- self , that there ever was any one person besides Sal- masius of so slavish a spirit , as to assert the outrageous enormities of tyrants to be the rights of kings . amongst us ...
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