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1 36 Of Reformation in England , and the Causes that hitherto have hindered it Of Prelatical Episcopacy , and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical Times , by Virtue of those Testimonies which are alleged to that Purpose in ...
1 36 Of Reformation in England , and the Causes that hitherto have hindered it Of Prelatical Episcopacy , and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical Times , by Virtue of those Testimonies which are alleged to that Purpose in ...
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Part of the cross , in which he thought such virtue to reside , as would prove a kind of Palladium to save the city wherever it remained , he caused to be laid up in a pillar of porphyry by his statue . ** How should then the dim taper ...
Part of the cross , in which he thought such virtue to reside , as would prove a kind of Palladium to save the city wherever it remained , he caused to be laid up in a pillar of porphyry by his statue . ** How should then the dim taper ...
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SIR , It is a work good and prudent to be able to guide one man ; of larger extended virtue to order well one house : but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size ...
SIR , It is a work good and prudent to be able to guide one man ; of larger extended virtue to order well one house : but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size ...
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... as big and compact in virtue as in body ; for look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man , the same ye shall find them to a whole state , as Aristotle , both in his Ethics and Politics , from the principles ...
... as big and compact in virtue as in body ; for look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man , the same ye shall find them to a whole state , as Aristotle , both in his Ethics and Politics , from the principles ...
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But what greater debasement can there be to royal dignity , whose towering and stedfast height rests upon the unmovable foundations of justice , and heroic virtue , than to chain it in a dependance of subsisting , or ruining , to the ...
But what greater debasement can there be to royal dignity , whose towering and stedfast height rests upon the unmovable foundations of justice , and heroic virtue , than to chain it in a dependance of subsisting , or ruining , to the ...
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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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