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Hence , the troubles of the times are not to be attributed wholly to wilfulness or faction ; neither to the misgovernment of the prince , nor the stubbornness of the people ; but to a change in the balance of property , which , since ...
Hence , the troubles of the times are not to be attributed wholly to wilfulness or faction ; neither to the misgovernment of the prince , nor the stubbornness of the people ; but to a change in the balance of property , which , since ...
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ܪ 1 arising chiefly from ' the insular situation of their doininions , had embraced the same despotical principles as the other princes of Europe . An army was wanting to support their claims ; but , from the insular security of ...
ܪ 1 arising chiefly from ' the insular situation of their doininions , had embraced the same despotical principles as the other princes of Europe . An army was wanting to support their claims ; but , from the insular security of ...
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... divine and human learning raked out of the enibers of forgotten tongues , the princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banner of salvation ; the martyrs , with the unresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of ...
... divine and human learning raked out of the enibers of forgotten tongues , the princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banner of salvation ; the martyrs , with the unresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of ...
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... one of the executors , and the other bishops , none refusing , ( lest they should resist the Duke of Northumberland ) could find in their cons sciences to set their hands to the disenabling and defeating not only the princess Mary ...
... one of the executors , and the other bishops , none refusing , ( lest they should resist the Duke of Northumberland ) could find in their cons sciences to set their hands to the disenabling and defeating not only the princess Mary ...
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From hence then I pass to queen Elizabeth , the next protestant prince , in whose days why religion attained not a perfect reducement in the beginning of her reign , I suppose the hindering causes will be found to be common with some ...
From hence then I pass to queen Elizabeth , the next protestant prince , in whose days why religion attained not a perfect reducement in the beginning of her reign , I suppose the hindering causes will be found to be common with some ...
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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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