Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 8
... once set up in foolish mood and with supine endeavor . Injurious error , forsooth , led me astray , and untutored youth was a bad teacher ; until the shady Academy offered its Socratic streams , and freed me from the yoke to which I had ...
... once set up in foolish mood and with supine endeavor . Injurious error , forsooth , led me astray , and untutored youth was a bad teacher ; until the shady Academy offered its Socratic streams , and freed me from the yoke to which I had ...
Page 12
... once , but in connection with a doctrine basic to the Laws as a whole , that unnecessary and careless change , like all instability , is at once a cause and sign of decay . Though it may seem strange for an advo- cate of divorce and ...
... once , but in connection with a doctrine basic to the Laws as a whole , that unnecessary and careless change , like all instability , is at once a cause and sign of decay . Though it may seem strange for an advo- cate of divorce and ...
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... Once again hear Milton on our under- standing and its object : The very essence of Truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness is our own . The wisdom of God created understanding , fit and proportionable to Truth ...
... Once again hear Milton on our under- standing and its object : The very essence of Truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness is our own . The wisdom of God created understanding , fit and proportionable to Truth ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
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