Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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Page xxx
... 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 trans- lator . " Tetrachordon and Colasterion followed , in 1645 ; the former ...
... 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 trans- lator . " Tetrachordon and Colasterion followed , in 1645 ; the former ...
Page xxxvii
... less a superior , he no doubt solaced his fancy with the anticipation of the new glories which were to encircle his lettered head , though doomed , alas ! to be hum- bled in the dust . His book was entitled Defensio Regia pro Ca- rolo ...
... less a superior , he no doubt solaced his fancy with the anticipation of the new glories which were to encircle his lettered head , though doomed , alas ! to be hum- bled in the dust . His book was entitled Defensio Regia pro Ca- rolo ...
Page xliii
... less suspicious sincerity , he received letters of the most flattering kind from many of the most eminent men in Europe for talents and learning ; who , " actuated , " as it is said , " by a similar spirit with the spectators of the old ...
... less suspicious sincerity , he received letters of the most flattering kind from many of the most eminent men in Europe for talents and learning ; who , " actuated , " as it is said , " by a similar spirit with the spectators of the old ...
Page xlvii
... the other pieces ; and in personal abuse it perhaps surpasses them - abuse too , which may be thought less excuseable , as , I believe , it was never certainly known that Bramhal was the author , though INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
... the other pieces ; and in personal abuse it perhaps surpasses them - abuse too , which may be thought less excuseable , as , I believe , it was never certainly known that Bramhal was the author , though INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
Page lxii
... less refined than that of the present , which , though it may tolerate , would scarcely relish and approve the rude invec- tive , the gross personalities , which mark and dis- grace the controversial writings both of Milton and of his ...
... less refined than that of the present , which , though it may tolerate , would scarcely relish and approve the rude invec- tive , the gross personalities , which mark and dis- grace the controversial writings both of Milton and of his ...
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