Prose Works of John Milton ...Hurst, 1865 - 846 pages |
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... virtue , falsehood and truth , the greater extremity of virtue and superlative truth we run into , the more virtuous and the more wise we become ; and he that , flying from degenerate and traditional corruption , fears to shoot himself ...
... virtue , falsehood and truth , the greater extremity of virtue and superlative truth we run into , the more virtuous and the more wise we become ; and he that , flying from degenerate and traditional corruption , fears to shoot himself ...
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... virtue which abhors the society of bordelloes . ― Thus , from the laureat fraternity of poets , riper years and the ceaseless round of study and read- ing led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of ...
... virtue which abhors the society of bordelloes . ― Thus , from the laureat fraternity of poets , riper years and the ceaseless round of study and read- ing led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of ...
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... virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers , and rejects it , is but a blank virtue , not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness ...
... virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers , and rejects it , is but a blank virtue , not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness ...
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FROM THE TREATISE OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND | 1 |
FROM THE TREATISE OF PRELATICAL EPISCOPACY | 25 |
FROM ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE REMONSTRANTS DEFENCE | 65 |
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