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Page xi
... one of the few who could reason calınly amidst the tumult of the civil wars ) no govertiment is of so accidental or arbitrary an institution , aš people are b VOL . I. wont to imagine ; there being in societies natural causes --- .
... one of the few who could reason calınly amidst the tumult of the civil wars ) no govertiment is of so accidental or arbitrary an institution , aš people are b VOL . I. wont to imagine ; there being in societies natural causes --- .
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wont to imagine ; there being in societies natural causes producing their necessary effects , as well a3 in the earth or the air . Hence , the troubles of the times are not to be attributed wholly to wilfulness or faction ; neither to ...
wont to imagine ; there being in societies natural causes producing their necessary effects , as well a3 in the earth or the air . Hence , the troubles of the times are not to be attributed wholly to wilfulness or faction ; neither to ...
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... 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 bore me a speaker of what God made mine own , and not a translator .
... 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 bore me a speaker of what God made mine own , and not a translator .
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No efforts of the prevailing party could prevent a very general sympathy for his fate . Resistance being now at an end on his part , his despotism was forgotten , his good qualities studiously magnified , and nature , softening into ...
No efforts of the prevailing party could prevent a very general sympathy for his fate . Resistance being now at an end on his part , his despotism was forgotten , his good qualities studiously magnified , and nature , softening into ...
Page xl
But the celebrity of Salmasius , and the inflammatory nature of the subject , showed the English government the necessity of a reply . Milton was present in the council when the question was agitated , and all directed their eyes ...
But the celebrity of Salmasius , and the inflammatory nature of the subject , showed the English government the necessity of a reply . Milton was present in the council when the question was agitated , and all directed their eyes ...
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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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