The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1806 - 566 pages |
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... thing in common , but a name , with that malignant and selfish faction which , surrendering principle to passion , inflicted , in the earlier periods of the last century , some fatal wounds on the constitution , or with those men , who ...
... thing in common , but a name , with that malignant and selfish faction which , surrendering principle to passion , inflicted , in the earlier periods of the last century , some fatal wounds on the constitution , or with those men , who ...
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... thing is mentioned , is John Mil- ton , the grandfather of our author ; and of him we are told nothing more than that he was under - ranger of the forest of Shotover , in Oxfordshire ; that he was a zealous catho- lic , and that he ...
... thing is mentioned , is John Mil- ton , the grandfather of our author ; and of him we are told nothing more than that he was under - ranger of the forest of Shotover , in Oxfordshire ; that he was a zealous catho- lic , and that he ...
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... thing that I have written . " Notwithstanding this strong assertion , the hostility of the present generation has again brought the evidence of Milton to convict Milton , and to establish the charges of his calumniator . In opposition ...
... thing that I have written . " Notwithstanding this strong assertion , the hostility of the present generation has again brought the evidence of Milton to convict Milton , and to establish the charges of his calumniator . In opposition ...
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... things besides threats , I shall leave to the reader to determine ; suggest- ing only that Dr. Johnson , for the purpose of concealing the weakness of his infer- ence , has intimated a false translation of the " Warton's Life of Dean ...
... things besides threats , I shall leave to the reader to determine ; suggest- ing only that Dr. Johnson , for the purpose of concealing the weakness of his infer- ence , has intimated a false translation of the " Warton's Life of Dean ...
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... thing else , which a temper like his cannot undergo . " Here indeed he translates with sufficient correctness ; but in the following sentence , this something else is changed into something more ; and we are told that what was more than ...
... thing else , which a temper like his cannot undergo . " Here indeed he translates with sufficient correctness ; but in the following sentence , this something else is changed into something more ; and we are told that what was more than ...
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