Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... gives a brief history of himself from his earliest years to the period of his writing . He is inhumanly upbraided with his blindness , as the punishment of divine wrath ; and the noble and magnanimous manner in which he speaks upon this ...
... gives a brief history of himself from his earliest years to the period of his writing . He is inhumanly upbraided with his blindness , as the punishment of divine wrath ; and the noble and magnanimous manner in which he speaks upon this ...
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... give up the real author . Du Moulin , being at that time in London , now thought himself in great danger ; but , according to his own account , he was saved by the pride of Milton , who dis- dained to acknowledge himself in an error ...
... give up the real author . Du Moulin , being at that time in London , now thought himself in great danger ; but , according to his own account , he was saved by the pride of Milton , who dis- dained to acknowledge himself in an error ...
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... give his enemies an advantage , he was under the necessity of fighting them with their own weapons ; with this difference , how- ever , that his weapons were whetted only by truth . What ! says he , shall the royalists be at liberty to ...
... give his enemies an advantage , he was under the necessity of fighting them with their own weapons ; with this difference , how- ever , that his weapons were whetted only by truth . What ! says he , shall the royalists be at liberty to ...
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... . Saint Paul writes , that " a man may give his body to be burnt , ( meaning for religion ) and yet not have charity : " he is not therefore above all possibility of erring , because he burns for Of Reformation in England .
... . Saint Paul writes , that " a man may give his body to be burnt , ( meaning for religion ) and yet not have charity : " he is not therefore above all possibility of erring , because he burns for Of Reformation in England .
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... give us the ampler scope to judge , will require a more exact search : and to effect this the speedier , I shall distinguish such as I esteem to be the hinderers of reformation into three sorts , Antiquitarians ( for so I had rather ...
... give us the ampler scope to judge , will require a more exact search : and to effect this the speedier , I shall distinguish such as I esteem to be the hinderers of reformation into three sorts , Antiquitarians ( for so I had rather ...
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