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L Roman upon had rejected , it is true , many absurd ' opinions , and ceremonies ; but its character and tendency were yet catholic . The dignitaries had ' jurisdiction and authority ; they had the same opulence and splendour ...
L Roman upon had rejected , it is true , many absurd ' opinions , and ceremonies ; but its character and tendency were yet catholic . The dignitaries had ' jurisdiction and authority ; they had the same opulence and splendour ...
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They would none of them allow that freedom of , opinion , which they claimed for themselves . Every error , not their own , was damnable , and to be suppressed at any rate . Here Milton is a conspicuous exception .
They would none of them allow that freedom of , opinion , which they claimed for themselves . Every error , not their own , was damnable , and to be suppressed at any rate . Here Milton is a conspicuous exception .
Page xxx
But this , I hope , will be enough to excuse me with the mere Englishman , to be no forger of new and loose opinions . Others may read him in his own phrase on the first to the Corinthians , and ease me who never could delight in long ...
But this , I hope , will be enough to excuse me with the mere Englishman , to be no forger of new and loose opinions . Others may read him in his own phrase on the first to the Corinthians , and ease me who never could delight in long ...
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Besides , I am of opinion , that even a king's advocate ought not , in his master's cause , to speak in public differently from what he speaks and thinks in private ; as the laws which we use in private life are not at all different ...
Besides , I am of opinion , that even a king's advocate ought not , in his master's cause , to speak in public differently from what he speaks and thinks in private ; as the laws which we use in private life are not at all different ...
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... ability , and ( where his interests as ruler were not directly concerned ) by justice , so as to strike all foreign potentates with respect and awe . It was his opinion , moreover , potiri rerum dignissimum — that the most worthy ...
... ability , and ( where his interests as ruler were not directly concerned ) by justice , so as to strike all foreign potentates with respect and awe . It was his opinion , moreover , potiri rerum dignissimum — that the most worthy ...
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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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