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... convert the prose works also of our great poet into a popular classic , by selecting his , best pieces , that is , his political writings , and giving extracts from the rest , and to print the whole in a smaller and cheaper form .
... convert the prose works also of our great poet into a popular classic , by selecting his , best pieces , that is , his political writings , and giving extracts from the rest , and to print the whole in a smaller and cheaper form .
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The theological pieces , and those on divorce , have been considerably abridged ; Areopagitica a little ; and Iconoclastes a good deal : the other pieces are entire ; and the whole of the second volume is without any abridgment whatever ...
The theological pieces , and those on divorce , have been considerably abridged ; Areopagitica a little ; and Iconoclastes a good deal : the other pieces are entire ; and the whole of the second volume is without any abridgment whatever ...
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“ Apology for Smectymnuus ' ; " which are the least valuable of the whole . In the rest , it will be found that the argument is sufficiently connected ; and that all those passages are retained which are remarkable for their eloquence ...
“ Apology for Smectymnuus ' ; " which are the least valuable of the whole . In the rest , it will be found that the argument is sufficiently connected ; and that all those passages are retained which are remarkable for their eloquence ...
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... and ease me who never could delight in long citations , much less in whole traductions ; whether it be natural disposition or education in me , or that my mother bore me a speaker of what God made mine own , and not a translator .
... and ease me who never could delight in long citations , much less in whole traductions ; whether it be natural disposition or education in me , or that my mother bore me a speaker of what God made mine own , and not a translator .
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Salmasius had been educated in the principles of the protestants ; had been among the foremost in his attacks upon popery and the whole ecclesiastical hierarchy ; and was now sitting under the laurels he had won , in a protestant ...
Salmasius had been educated in the principles of the protestants ; had been among the foremost in his attacks upon popery and the whole ecclesiastical hierarchy ; and was now sitting under the laurels he had won , in a protestant ...
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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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