The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... hands of parliament to change or abrogate as they fhall fee best for the commonwealth , even to the taking away of kingfhip itself , when it grows too mafterful and burden- fome . For every commonwealth is in general defined , a fociety ...
... hands of parliament to change or abrogate as they fhall fee best for the commonwealth , even to the taking away of kingfhip itself , when it grows too mafterful and burden- fome . For every commonwealth is in general defined , a fociety ...
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... hands bound by laws in force , or the fuppofition of more piety and wifdom in their ancestors , or the practice of churches heretofore ; whofe fathers , notwithstanding all these pre- tences , made as vaft alterations to free themfelves ...
... hands bound by laws in force , or the fuppofition of more piety and wifdom in their ancestors , or the practice of churches heretofore ; whofe fathers , notwithstanding all these pre- tences , made as vaft alterations to free themfelves ...
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... hands , attefted by the oaths of fome that were eye - witnelles , and had feen it under the feal others of the principal rebels have confeffed , that this commiflion was the fummer before promised at Lon- don to the Irish commiffioners ...
... hands , attefted by the oaths of fome that were eye - witnelles , and had feen it under the feal others of the principal rebels have confeffed , that this commiflion was the fummer before promised at Lon- don to the Irish commiffioners ...
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... hand , it must needs be plain ; who , notwithstanding the mifs of thofe forces , which at their landing here maftered without difficulty great part of Wales and Chefhire , yet made a fhift to keep their own in Ireland . But the plot of ...
... hand , it must needs be plain ; who , notwithstanding the mifs of thofe forces , which at their landing here maftered without difficulty great part of Wales and Chefhire , yet made a fhift to keep their own in Ireland . But the plot of ...
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... hands . Indeed , if the race of kings were eminently the beft of men , as the breed at Tutbury is of horfes , it would in reafon then be their part only to command , ours always to obey . But kings by gene- ration no way excelling ...
... hands . Indeed , if the race of kings were eminently the beft of men , as the breed at Tutbury is of horfes , it would in reafon then be their part only to command , ours always to obey . But kings by gene- ration no way excelling ...
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