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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 433
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...to conduct the government, and to save the country. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the few among us, who, either wnbitious of honours which they have not the capacity to APPEAL TO CROMWELL IN BEHALF OF LIBERTY. 217...
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...to conduct the government, and to save the country. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the few among us, who, either ambitious of honors which they have not the capacity to sustain, or who envy those which are conferred on one more...
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...to conduct the government, and to save the country. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the few among us, who, either ambitious of honors which they have not the capacity to sustain, or who envy those which are conferred on one more...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...to conduct the government, and to save the country. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the few among us, who, either ambitious of honors which they have not the capacity to sustain, or who envy those which are conferred on one more...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...to conduct the government, and to save the country. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the few among us, who, either ambitious of honors which they have not the capacity to sustain, or who envy those which are conferred on one more...
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The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1877 - 554 pages
...to conduct the government, and to save the country. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the...ambitious of honours which they have not the capacity to sustain, or who envy those which are conferred on one more worthy than themselves, or else who do not...
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Philosophy of the Waverley Novels

Albert Stratford George Canning - 1879 - 392 pages
...more respectful obedience.2 1 Milton's Allegro. a ' We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the...ambitious of honours which they have not the capacity His vehement, or as some would call it, eloquent vindication of Charles L's execution, was at this...
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Half hours of English history, from James the first to queen Victoria ...

English history - 1881 - 888 pages
...to conduct the government, and to save the country. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the...ambitious of honours which they have not the capacity to sustain, or who envy those which are conferred on one more worthy than themselves, or else who do not...
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The Historical Reader: Embracing Selections from Standard Writers of Ancient ...

John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pages
...to conduct the government, and to save the country. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue, except the few among us who, either ambitious of honors which they have not the capacity to sustain, or who envy those which are conferred on one more...
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The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane, Governor of Massachusetts Bay ..., Volume 3

James Kendall Hosmer - 1888 - 644 pages
...the Supreme, who distrusts the security of England. We all willingly yield the palm of sovereignty to your unrivalled ability and virtue except the few among us who do not know that nothing in the world is more pleasing to God, than that the supreme power should be...
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