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The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ; proving that it is lawful , and hath been held so through all Ages , for any , who have the power , to call to account a Tyrant , or wicked King , and , after due Conviction , to depose , and put ...
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates ; proving that it is lawful , and hath been held so through all Ages , for any , who have the power , to call to account a Tyrant , or wicked King , and , after due Conviction , to depose , and put ...
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... in both sexes should be bred up from chaste hopes to loyal enjoyments ; and when the people slacken , and fall to looseness and riot , then do they as much as if they laid down their necks for some wild tyrant to get up and ride .
... in both sexes should be bred up from chaste hopes to loyal enjoyments ; and when the people slacken , and fall to looseness and riot , then do they as much as if they laid down their necks for some wild tyrant to get up and ride .
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Jerome , the learnedest of the fathers , hides not his opinion , that custom only , which the proverb calls a tyrant , was the maker of prelaty ; before his audacious workmanship the churches were ruled in common by the presbyters : and ...
Jerome , the learnedest of the fathers , hides not his opinion , that custom only , which the proverb calls a tyrant , was the maker of prelaty ; before his audacious workmanship the churches were ruled in common by the presbyters : and ...
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... that if it should happen that a tyrant ( God turn such a scourge from us to our enemies ) should come to grasp the sceptre , here his spearmen and his lances , here were his firelocks ready , he should need no other pretorian band ...
... that if it should happen that a tyrant ( God turn such a scourge from us to our enemies ) should come to grasp the sceptre , here his spearmen and his lances , here were his firelocks ready , he should need no other pretorian band ...
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first from the thraldom of sin and superstition , after which all honest and legal freedom of civil life cannot be long absent ; but prelaty , whom the tyrant custom begot , a natural tyrant in religion , and in state the agent and ...
first from the thraldom of sin and superstition , after which all honest and legal freedom of civil life cannot be long absent ; but prelaty , whom the tyrant custom begot , a natural tyrant in religion , and in state the agent 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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