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Page ii
... thing which should , perhaps , subsist upon patronage , celebrate the praises of kings , and abandon the study of ... things , strive to infuse into public affairs as much as possible of their own spirit ; since in this way only can ...
... thing which should , perhaps , subsist upon patronage , celebrate the praises of kings , and abandon the study of ... things , strive to infuse into public affairs as much as possible of their own spirit ; since in this way only can ...
Page viii
... things indifferent , that they might bring the inward acts of the spirit to the outward and customary eye - service of the body , as if they could make God earthly and fleshly , because they could not make themselves heavenly and ...
... things indifferent , that they might bring the inward acts of the spirit to the outward and customary eye - service of the body , as if they could make God earthly and fleshly , because they could not make themselves heavenly and ...
Page xii
... things - rank , distinction , wealth ; as the presby- terians soon made evident when they had succeeded in ousting the prelates . Of all Milton's prose works , none , perhaps , contains passages of greater beauty than his treatises on ...
... things - rank , distinction , wealth ; as the presby- terians soon made evident when they had succeeded in ousting the prelates . Of all Milton's prose works , none , perhaps , contains passages of greater beauty than his treatises on ...
Page xv
... things not so quick- sighted , while they haste too eagerly to light the nuptial torch ; nor is it therefore that for a modest error a man should forfeit so great a happiness , and no charitable means to release him . Since they who ...
... things not so quick- sighted , while they haste too eagerly to light the nuptial torch ; nor is it therefore that for a modest error a man should forfeit so great a happiness , and no charitable means to release him . Since they who ...
Page xxxiv
... things besides threats which he disliked in a college life : Johnson , by altering his words , says what was more than threats , was probably punishment ; ergo , Milton must be thought , what I think it impiety to write . It is a common ...
... things besides threats which he disliked in a college life : Johnson , by altering his words , says what was more than threats , was probably punishment ; ergo , Milton must be thought , what I think it impiety to write . It is a common ...
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