Prose Works of John MiltonJ.B. Alden, 1885 - 486 pages |
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... human learning raked out of the embers of forgotten tongues , the princes and cities trooping apace to the new erected ban- ner of salvation ; the martyrs , with the unresist- able might of weakness shaking the powers of darkness , and ...
... human learning raked out of the embers of forgotten tongues , the princes and cities trooping apace to the new erected ban- ner of salvation ; the martyrs , with the unresist- able might of weakness shaking the powers of darkness , and ...
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... human laws , which for the most part aim not beyond the good of civil society , to set them barely forth to the people without reason or preface , like a physical prescript , or only with threatenings , as it were a lordly command , in ...
... human laws , which for the most part aim not beyond the good of civil society , to set them barely forth to the people without reason or preface , like a physical prescript , or only with threatenings , as it were a lordly command , in ...
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... human occasions , are moved to and fro as upon the axle of discipline . So that whatsoever power or sway in mortal things weaker men have attributed to fortune , I durst with more confidence ( the honor of Divine Providence ever saved ) ...
... human occasions , are moved to and fro as upon the axle of discipline . So that whatsoever power or sway in mortal things weaker men have attributed to fortune , I durst with more confidence ( the honor of Divine Providence ever saved ) ...
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... human intellect , anger and laughter , were first seated in the breast of man . .... The Romans had a time , once every year , when their slaves might freely speak their minds ; it were hard if the freeborn people of England , with whom ...
... human intellect , anger and laughter , were first seated in the breast of man . .... The Romans had a time , once every year , when their slaves might freely speak their minds ; it were hard if the freeborn people of England , with whom ...
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... human principles , and carnal sense , the pride of flesh , that still cried up an- tiquity , custom , canons , councils , and laws ; and cried down the truth for novelty , schism , profane- ness , and sacrilege ? whenas we that have ...
... human principles , and carnal sense , the pride of flesh , that still cried up an- tiquity , custom , canons , councils , and laws ; and cried down the truth for novelty , schism , profane- ness , and sacrilege ? whenas we that have ...
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