Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... justice or injustice of Charles's exe- cution , I shall say little , as for the most part , I could only repeat what Milton has said be- fore , and particularly towards the conclusion of the Second Defence . That his death was the work ...
... justice or injustice of Charles's exe- cution , I shall say little , as for the most part , I could only repeat what Milton has said be- fore , and particularly towards the conclusion of the Second Defence . That his death was the work ...
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... justice , so as to strike all foreign potentates with respect and awe . It was his opinion , moreover , potiri rerum dignissimum - that the most worthy ( i . e . the man who is fittest for command ) ought to pos- sess the sovereign ...
... justice , so as to strike all foreign potentates with respect and awe . It was his opinion , moreover , potiri rerum dignissimum - that the most worthy ( i . e . the man who is fittest for command ) ought to pos- sess the sovereign ...
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... justice , and heroic virtue , than to chain it in a dependance of subsisting , or ruining , to the painted battlements and gaudy rottenness of prelatry , which want but one puff of the king's to blow them down like a pasteboard house ...
... justice , and heroic virtue , than to chain it in a dependance of subsisting , or ruining , to the painted battlements and gaudy rottenness of prelatry , which want but one puff of the king's to blow them down like a pasteboard house ...
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... justice , " which is the uni- versal justice that Aristotle so much praises , containing in it all other virtues , it may assure us that the fall of prelacy , whose actions are so far distant from justice , cannot shake the least fringe ...
... justice , " which is the uni- versal justice that Aristotle so much praises , containing in it all other virtues , it may assure us that the fall of prelacy , whose actions are so far distant from justice , cannot shake the least fringe ...
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... lau- rel out of the tears of wretched men ? ) but to settle the pure worship of God in his church , and justice in the state : then shall the hardest difficulties smooth out themselves 32 Of Reformation in England . .
... lau- rel out of the tears of wretched men ? ) but to settle the pure worship of God in his church , and justice in the state : then shall the hardest difficulties smooth out themselves 32 Of Reformation in England . .
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