The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... he infpires , and the good authors which he causes to be read . Nor do I think it a matter of little moment whether the language of a people be vitiated or refined , whether the a the popular idiom be erroneous or correct . This xi.
... he infpires , and the good authors which he causes to be read . Nor do I think it a matter of little moment whether the language of a people be vitiated or refined , whether the a the popular idiom be erroneous or correct . This xi.
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... matters of religion as they then flood , by that commiffion granted to eight bi- fhops , eight other divines , eight civilians , eight common lawyers , to frame ecclefiaftical conftitutions ; which no wonder if it came to nothing , for ...
... matters of religion as they then flood , by that commiffion granted to eight bi- fhops , eight other divines , eight civilians , eight common lawyers , to frame ecclefiaftical conftitutions ; which no wonder if it came to nothing , for ...
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... matter it was as want of a fat diocese that kept our Britain bishops fo poor in the primitive times , that being called to the council of Ariminum in the year 359 , they had not wherewithal to defray the charges of their journey , but ...
... matter it was as want of a fat diocese that kept our Britain bishops fo poor in the primitive times , that being called to the council of Ariminum in the year 359 , they had not wherewithal to defray the charges of their journey , but ...
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... matters of the church almost 400 years after Chrift , and very probably far lower : for Nicephorus Phocas the Greek emperor , whofe reign fell near the 1000 year of our Lord , having done many things tyrannically , is faid by Cedrenus ...
... matters of the church almost 400 years after Chrift , and very probably far lower : for Nicephorus Phocas the Greek emperor , whofe reign fell near the 1000 year of our Lord , having done many things tyrannically , is faid by Cedrenus ...
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... matters as clogs , and indeed derogations and debasements to their high calling ; little needed the princes and po- tentates of the earth , which way foever the gospel was fpread , to ftudy ways how to make a coherence between the ...
... matters as clogs , and indeed derogations and debasements to their high calling ; little needed the princes and po- tentates of the earth , which way foever the gospel was fpread , to ftudy ways how to make a coherence between the ...
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