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And what was of far less suspicious sincerity , he received letters of the most flattering kind from many of the most eminent men in Europe for talents and learning ; who , “ actuated , ” as it is said , " by a similar spirit with the ...
And what was of far less suspicious sincerity , he received letters of the most flattering kind from many of the most eminent men in Europe for talents and learning ; who , “ actuated , ” as it is said , " by a similar spirit with the ...
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Part of the cross , in which he thought such virtue to reside , as would prove a kind of Palladium to save the city wherever it remained , he caused to be laid up in a pillar of porphyry by his statue . ** How should then the dim taper ...
Part of the cross , in which he thought such virtue to reside , as would prove a kind of Palladium to save the city wherever it remained , he caused to be laid up in a pillar of porphyry by his statue . ** How should then the dim taper ...
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We therefore having already a kind of apostolical and ancient church election in our state , what a perverseness would it be in us of all others to retain forcibly a kind of imperious and stately election in our church ?
We therefore having already a kind of apostolical and ancient church election in our state , what a perverseness would it be in us of all others to retain forcibly a kind of imperious and stately election in our church ?
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And therefore from a mistaken text did they give to Leo , as Peter's successor , a kind of preeminence above the whole council , as Euagrius expresses ( for now the pope was come to that height , as to arrogate to himself by his vicars ...
And therefore from a mistaken text did they give to Leo , as Peter's successor , a kind of preeminence above the whole council , as Euagrius expresses ( for now the pope was come to that height , as to arrogate to himself by his vicars ...
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... speaking beyond his own diocess : and certainly much more hard was it for either of them to determine what kind of bishops these were , if they had so little means to know who they were ; and much less reason have we to stand to ...
... speaking beyond his own diocess : and certainly much more hard was it for either of them to determine what kind of bishops these were , if they had so little means to know who they were ; and much less reason have we to stand to ...
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| Title | Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1 Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, George Burnett |
| Author | John Milton |
| Translated by | George Burnett |
| Publisher | J. Miller, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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