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Page xxxiv
I shall decline also saying any thing in this place of the principles contained in it , as the few remarks I should have to make would occur again , in speaking of the First Defence . Milton bad not been long settled in his office for ...
I shall decline also saying any thing in this place of the principles contained in it , as the few remarks I should have to make would occur again , in speaking of the First Defence . Milton bad not been long settled in his office for ...
Page xxxix
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 ...
Page xlviii
But it should be observed , that the piece itself , to which the one we are speaking of is an answer , was sufficiently offensive to justify Milton's invective . A second answer to the Defence appeared in 1652 , which was printed at the ...
But it should be observed , that the piece itself , to which the one we are speaking of is an answer , was sufficiently offensive to justify Milton's invective . A second answer to the Defence appeared in 1652 , which was printed at the ...
Page xlix
To repel the slanders of his adversaries he is necessarily led to speak much of himself . He even gives a brief history of himself from his earliest years to the period of his writing . He is inhumanly upbraided with his blindness ...
To repel the slanders of his adversaries he is necessarily led to speak much of himself . He even gives a brief history of himself from his earliest years to the period of his writing . He is inhumanly upbraided with his blindness ...
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... upon the protector ; where it may be seen that he often applauds rather what he would wish him to be , than what he actually was ; and it is still more manifest from many of his private letters , where he speaks without disguise .
... upon the protector ; where it may be seen that he often applauds rather what he would wish him to be , than what he actually was ; and it is still more manifest from many of his private letters , where he speaks without disguise .
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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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