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Few readers would perhaps expect the rare display of learning and logic which
they will find in this treatise . Literature in Milton's days differed very much in
character from the literature of our own . Authors would then seem to have
thought it ...
Few readers would perhaps expect the rare display of learning and logic which
they will find in this treatise . Literature in Milton's days differed very much in
character from the literature of our own . Authors would then seem to have
thought it ...
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What harm the excess thereof brought to the church , perhaps was not found by
experience till the days of Constantine ; who out of his zeal thinking he could be
never too liberally a nursing father of the church , might he not unfitly said to have
...
What harm the excess thereof brought to the church , perhaps was not found by
experience till the days of Constantine ; who out of his zeal thinking he could be
never too liberally a nursing father of the church , might he not unfitly said to have
...
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They will reply , perhaps , that if one priest paid tithes to another , it must needs
be understood that the people did no less to the priest . But I shall easily remove
that necessity , by remembering them that in those days was no priest , but the ...
They will reply , perhaps , that if one priest paid tithes to another , it must needs
be understood that the people did no less to the priest . But I shall easily remove
that necessity , by remembering them that in those days was no priest , but the ...
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So that the defenders of tithes , after a long pomp , and tedious preparation out of
heathen authors , telling is that tithes were paid to Hercules and Apollo , which
perhaps was imi tated from the Jews , and as it were bespeaking our expectation
...
So that the defenders of tithes , after a long pomp , and tedious preparation out of
heathen authors , telling is that tithes were paid to Hercules and Apollo , which
perhaps was imi tated from the Jews , and as it were bespeaking our expectation
...
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The first authority which our adversaries bring , after those fabulous apostolic
canons , which they dare not insist upon , is a provincial council heid at Cullen ,
where they voted ' tithes to be God's rent , in the year 356 ; at the same time
perhaps ...
The first authority which our adversaries bring , after those fabulous apostolic
canons , which they dare not insist upon , is a provincial council heid at Cullen ,
where they voted ' tithes to be God's rent , in the year 356 ; at the same time
perhaps ...
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| Title | The Prose Works of John Milton ... Bohn's Standard Library Volume 3 of The Prose Works of John Milton, John Milton |
| Author | John Milton |
| Publisher | Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2020 |
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