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No doubt , it is always more wise , more manly , and dignified , to despise , or at any rate , to disregard scurrilities , if it can be done without suffering any stain to be affixed on a man's reputation . But Milton had evidently no ...
No doubt , it is always more wise , more manly , and dignified , to despise , or at any rate , to disregard scurrilities , if it can be done without suffering any stain to be affixed on a man's reputation . But Milton had evidently no ...
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Whether the bishops of England have deserved thus to be feared by men so wise as our Chaucer is esteemed ; and how agreeable to our monarchy and monarchs their demeanour has been , that is but meanly read in our chronicles needs not be ...
Whether the bishops of England have deserved thus to be feared by men so wise as our Chaucer is esteemed ; and how agreeable to our monarchy and monarchs their demeanour has been , that is but meanly read in our chronicles needs not be ...
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Yes , sure ; as wise and famous men have suspected and feared the protestant episcopacy in England , as those that have feared the papal . You know , sir , what was the judgment of Padre Paolo , the great Venetian antagonist of the pope ...
Yes , sure ; as wise and famous men have suspected and feared the protestant episcopacy in England , as those that have feared the papal . You know , sir , what was the judgment of Padre Paolo , the great Venetian antagonist of the pope ...
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Then was a wise and learned philosopher sent for , that knew all the charters , laws , and tenures of the body . On him it is imposed by all , as chief committee to examine , and discuss the claim and petition of right put in by the wen ...
Then was a wise and learned philosopher sent for , that knew all the charters , laws , and tenures of the body . On him it is imposed by all , as chief committee to examine , and discuss the claim and petition of right put in by the wen ...
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But to return whence was digressed : seeing that the throne of a king , as the wise king Solomon often remem“ is established in justice , " which is the universal justice that Aristotle so much praises , containing in it all other ...
But to return whence was digressed : seeing that the throne of a king , as the wise king Solomon often remem“ is established in justice , " which is the universal justice that Aristotle so much praises , containing in it all other ...
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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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