Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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Page xiv
... persons employed for the purpose . This deeree was enforced by inhuman penalties . But barbarous punishments - mutilations disgraceful to a civilized age - were insufficient to smother the indignant clamours of the people . Yet , it is ...
... persons employed for the purpose . This deeree was enforced by inhuman penalties . But barbarous punishments - mutilations disgraceful to a civilized age - were insufficient to smother the indignant clamours of the people . Yet , it is ...
Page xvii
... persons of rank and eminence ; hence their numbers were incon- siderable , till the danger of persecution from the presbyterians made it necessary for them to stoop , to the lower ranks . In the assembly of divines ,, they were ...
... persons of rank and eminence ; hence their numbers were incon- siderable , till the danger of persecution from the presbyterians made it necessary for them to stoop , to the lower ranks . In the assembly of divines ,, they were ...
Page xxviii
... has been omitted , I think the real value of the pieces is little diminished ; perhaps there are few persons who would not be disposed to thank me for saving them the trouble of perusing them entire . xxviii INTRODUCTION ..
... has been omitted , I think the real value of the pieces is little diminished ; perhaps there are few persons who would not be disposed to thank me for saving them the trouble of perusing them entire . xxviii INTRODUCTION ..
Page lii
... persons at a distance , should surely remind us . sometimes of candour and indulgence . No one who knows any thing * See Vol . II . p . 407 , where he is speaking on the subject of expediency , and quotes a passage from Cicero in ...
... persons at a distance , should surely remind us . sometimes of candour and indulgence . No one who knows any thing * See Vol . II . p . 407 , where he is speaking on the subject of expediency , and quotes a passage from Cicero in ...
Page lv
... , that he did then witness all respect to your person , and as much satisfaction concerning your work , as could be expected from so cursory a review , and so sudden an account as he could then have of it from me . " INTRODUCTION . lv.
... , that he did then witness all respect to your person , and as much satisfaction concerning your work , as could be expected from so cursory a review , and so sudden an account as he could then have of it from me . " INTRODUCTION . lv.
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