Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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Page xi
... the few who could reason calmnly amidst the tumult of the civil wars ) -no government is of so acci- dental or arbitrary an institution , as people are VOL . I. b wont to imagine ; there being in societies natural causes INTRODUCTION. ...
... the few who could reason calmnly amidst the tumult of the civil wars ) -no government is of so acci- dental or arbitrary an institution , as people are VOL . I. b wont to imagine ; there being in societies natural causes INTRODUCTION. ...
Page xi
... natural causes producing their necessary effects , as wel as in the earth or the air . Hence , the troubles of the times are not to be attributed wholly to wilfulness or faction ; neither to the misgovern- ment of the prince , nor the ...
... natural causes producing their necessary effects , as wel as in the earth or the air . Hence , the troubles of the times are not to be attributed wholly to wilfulness or faction ; neither to the misgovern- ment of the prince , nor the ...
Page xxx
... natural disposition or education in me , or that my mother bore me a speaker of what God made mine own , and not a trans- lator . " Tetrachordon and Colasterion followed , in 1645 ; the former being an exposition of the four chief ...
... natural disposition or education in me , or that my mother bore me a speaker of what God made mine own , and not a trans- lator . " Tetrachordon and Colasterion followed , in 1645 ; the former being an exposition of the four chief ...
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... nature , softening into for- giveness , beheld in his enemies nothing but his murderers . The appearance of such a book at this critical moment could not fail to be attended with danger , and it behoved the rulers if possible to ...
... nature , softening into for- giveness , beheld in his enemies nothing but his murderers . The appearance of such a book at this critical moment could not fail to be attended with danger , and it behoved the rulers if possible to ...
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... 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 towards him as the fittest antagonist for this redoubted foe ...
... 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 towards him as the fittest antagonist for this redoubted foe ...
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