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Page xxxviii
... attacked them with the utmost acrimony ; which he observes might expose him to the imputation of a time - server , who paid no regard to truth itself . Hoc sanè dicent esse tã xzıção de neuteur . potius quam τη αληθεία πείθεσθαι .
... attacked them with the utmost acrimony ; which he observes might expose him to the imputation of a time - server , who paid no regard to truth itself . Hoc sanè dicent esse tã xzıção de neuteur . potius quam τη αληθεία πείθεσθαι .
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in principle , copious and learned in illustration , in diction pure , elegant , lofty - never was there a nobler defence of liberty and truth against sophistry and despotism . As to the justice or injustice of Charles's execution ...
in principle , copious and learned in illustration , in diction pure , elegant , lofty - never was there a nobler defence of liberty and truth against sophistry and despotism . As to the justice or injustice of Charles's execution ...
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If he would not give bis enemies an advantage , he was under the necessity of fighting them with their own weapons ; with this difference , however , that his weapons were whetted only by truth . What ! says he , shall the royalists be ...
If he would not give bis enemies an advantage , he was under the necessity of fighting them with their own weapons ; with this difference , however , that his weapons were whetted only by truth . What ! says he , shall the royalists be ...
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... how it should come to pass that England ( having had this grace and honour from God , to be the first that should set up a standard for the recovery of lost truth , and blow the first evangelic trumpet to the nations , holding up ...
... how it should come to pass that England ( having had this grace and honour from God , to be the first that should set up a standard for the recovery of lost truth , and blow the first evangelic trumpet to the nations , holding up ...
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above all possibility of erring , because he burns for some points of truth **** And here withal I invoke the Immortal Deity , revealer and judge of secrets , that wherever I have in this book plainly and roundly ( though worthily and ...
above all possibility of erring , because he burns for some points of truth **** And here withal I invoke the Immortal Deity , revealer and judge of secrets , that wherever I have in this book plainly and roundly ( though worthily and ...
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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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