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They teach not , that to govern well , is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end ...
They teach not , that to govern well , is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end ...
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Nor shall the wisdom , the moderation , the Christian piety , the constancy of our nobility and commons of England , be ever forgotten , whose calm and temperate connivance could sit still and smile out the stormy bluster of men more ...
Nor shall the wisdom , the moderation , the Christian piety , the constancy of our nobility and commons of England , be ever forgotten , whose calm and temperate connivance could sit still and smile out the stormy bluster of men more ...
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Commit . securely to true wisdom the vanquishing and uncasing of craft and subtlety , which are but her two runagates : join your invincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds ; and then he that seeks to break your union , a cleaving ...
Commit . securely to true wisdom the vanquishing and uncasing of craft and subtlety , which are but her two runagates : join your invincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds ; and then he that seeks to break your union , a cleaving ...
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What know we further of him , but that he might be as factious and false a bishop as Leontius of Antioch , that was a hundred years his predecessor ? For neither the praise of his wisdom , or his virtue , hath left him memorable to ...
What know we further of him , but that he might be as factious and false a bishop as Leontius of Antioch , that was a hundred years his predecessor ? For neither the praise of his wisdom , or his virtue , hath left him memorable to ...
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It will not be denied that he might have seen Polycarpus in his youth ,a man of great eminence in the church , to whom the other presbyters might give way for his virtue , wisdom , and the reverence of his age ; and so did Anicetus ...
It will not be denied that he might have seen Polycarpus in his youth ,a man of great eminence in the church , to whom the other presbyters might give way for his virtue , wisdom , and the reverence of his age ; and so did Anicetus ...
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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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