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But the measures which contributed most to , rouse the indignation , and the invincible opposition of the nation , were the innovations in religion . By the new ecclesiastical canons of Laud , which enjoined a stricter discipline ...
But the measures which contributed most to , rouse the indignation , and the invincible opposition of the nation , were the innovations in religion . By the new ecclesiastical canons of Laud , which enjoined a stricter discipline ...
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Yet , it is to these religious disputes - to this obstinate fanatical spirit of the sectaries , blending itself with the ... still zealous to reform and purity their religion , directed their opposition against the church of England ...
Yet , it is to these religious disputes - to this obstinate fanatical spirit of the sectaries , blending itself with the ... still zealous to reform and purity their religion , directed their opposition against the church of England ...
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A Treatise of True Religion , Heresy , Schism , Toleration , and the best Means to prevent the Growth of Popery . " This was printed in 1673 . For some time after the accession of James I. the puritans aimed at no more than liberty of ...
A Treatise of True Religion , Heresy , Schism , Toleration , and the best Means to prevent the Growth of Popery . " This was printed in 1673 . For some time after the accession of James I. the puritans aimed at no more than liberty of ...
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Milton was not of a temper to stand an idle spectator of such scenes ; and he took up his pen with the united zeal of an apostle of religion and of liberty , prepared ...
Milton was not of a temper to stand an idle spectator of such scenes ; and he took up his pen with the united zeal of an apostle of religion and of liberty , prepared ...
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With Milton , religion , as to its practical effect , was a sublime , poetic feeling , which served to inspire and exalt his genius . There is , indeed , as has been often observed , great affinity between poetic and -religious ...
With Milton , religion , as to its practical effect , was a sublime , poetic feeling , which served to inspire and exalt his genius . There is , indeed , as has been often observed , great affinity between poetic and -religious ...
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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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