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Others may read him in his own phrase on the first to the Corinthians , and ease me who never could delight in long citations , much less in whole traductions ; whether it be natural disposition or education in me , or that my mother ...
Others may read him in his own phrase on the first to the Corinthians , and ease me who never could delight in long citations , much less in whole traductions ; whether it be natural disposition or education in me , or that my mother ...
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Literary reputation was his ruling passion , and not dreaming of meeting with any equal antagonist , much less a superior , he no doubt solaced his fancy with the anticipation of the new glories which were to encircle his lettered head ...
Literary reputation was his ruling passion , and not dreaming of meeting with any equal antagonist , much less a superior , he no doubt solaced his fancy with the anticipation of the new glories which were to encircle his lettered head ...
Page xliii
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 ...
Page xlvii
Its vehemence is at least equal to that of any of the other pieces ; and in personal abuse it perhaps surpasses them - abuse too , which may be thought less excuseable , as , I believe , it was never certainly known that Bramhal was the ...
Its vehemence is at least equal to that of any of the other pieces ; and in personal abuse it perhaps surpasses them - abuse too , which may be thought less excuseable , as , I believe , it was never certainly known that Bramhal was the ...
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1 To all this we may add , that the taste of the age in which Milton wrote was less refined than that of the present , which , though it may tolerate , would scarcely relish and approve the rude invective , the gross personalities ...
1 To all this we may add , that the taste of the age in which Milton wrote was less refined than that of the present , which , though it may tolerate , would scarcely relish and approve the rude invective , the gross personalities ...
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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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