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Page 76
... the Franks , and the Germans , down to the period in which they obtained liberty from the Emperor Rodolph . From that epoch it will be better to read separately the exertions of each distinct state . " And what are you doing ?
... the Franks , and the Germans , down to the period in which they obtained liberty from the Emperor Rodolph . From that epoch it will be better to read separately the exertions of each distinct state . " And what are you doing ?
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His public and his private life were impelled by the same principles to the same object ; -by the love of liberty and virtue to the happiness of man . If his solicitous and enlightened representations had experienced attention ...
His public and his private life were impelled by the same principles to the same object ; -by the love of liberty and virtue to the happiness of man . If his solicitous and enlightened representations had experienced attention ...
Page 116
“ Time serves not , ” ( he says , ) “ and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath liberty to propose to herself , though of highest hope and ...
“ Time serves not , ” ( he says , ) “ and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath liberty to propose to herself , though of highest hope and ...
Page 119
The fancy of Milton was , no doubt , strongly excited by the approach of that time , when he was to tread the vales of Enna and of Tempe ; the plains , on which Gelon and Miltiades had triumphed for the liberty of Greece over Carthage ...
The fancy of Milton was , no doubt , strongly excited by the approach of that time , when he was to tread the vales of Enna and of Tempe ; the plains , on which Gelon and Miltiades had triumphed for the liberty of Greece over Carthage ...
Page 120
... intelligence from England of the civil war recalled me : for I esteemed it dishonourable for me to be lingering abroad , even for the improvement of my mind , when my fellow citizens were contending for their liberty at home .
... intelligence from England of the civil war recalled me : for I esteemed it dishonourable for me to be lingering abroad , even for the improvement of my mind , when my fellow citizens were contending for their liberty at home .
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| Title | The Life of John Milton |
| Author | Charles Symmons |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Nichols and Son, 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2011 |
| Length | 566 pages |
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