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Hal ) , at the request of Laud , bad write ten a treatise on the divine right of episcopacy ; which was so altered by the primate , before it was printed , that Hall , when afterwards called upon for the purpose , hesitated to ...
Hal ) , at the request of Laud , bad write ten a treatise on the divine right of episcopacy ; which was so altered by the primate , before it was printed , that Hall , when afterwards called upon for the purpose , hesitated to ...
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Of this production a few pages only have been omitted , amounting perhaps to seven or eight of the octavo edition , which , though curiositymight wish to have seen , certainly add nothing to the value of the piece . a prose - writer .
Of this production a few pages only have been omitted , amounting perhaps to seven or eight of the octavo edition , which , though curiositymight wish to have seen , certainly add nothing to the value of the piece . a prose - writer .
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18 , 1650 , expresses his surprise that he should write in the preface to his Defensio with so much zeal in defence of the bishops of England , when he had , in another work of his , ' De Presbyteris et Episcopis , ' printed at Leyden ...
18 , 1650 , expresses his surprise that he should write in the preface to his Defensio with so much zeal in defence of the bishops of England , when he had , in another work of his , ' De Presbyteris et Episcopis , ' printed at Leyden ...
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Milton , while writing the First Defence , entirely lost the sight of one eye ; and that of the other soon after its completion - a loss he bore with the magnanimity which distinguishes his character . The beautiful sonnet he wrote on ...
Milton , while writing the First Defence , entirely lost the sight of one eye ; and that of the other soon after its completion - a loss he bore with the magnanimity which distinguishes his character . The beautiful sonnet he wrote on ...
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... when under twenty , to write an answer to it . But it is well known , that the answer , being written under the immediate superintendance of Milton , was so much corrected by him , as to be justly considered as his own .
... when under twenty , to write an answer to it . But it is well known , that the answer , being written under the immediate superintendance of Milton , was so much corrected by him , as to be justly considered as his own .
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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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