 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 578 pages
...I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pass over ii.to Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence which...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad, while my fellow-citizens were... | |
 | John Milton - 1923 - 338 pages
...doing, because I had spoken with so little reserve on matters of religion. When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad, while my fellow-citizens were... | |
 | 1881 - 890 pages
...the sole object of his life? In his " Defensio Secunda," he says : — When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence...of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to he travelling for amusement abroad while my fellow-citizens were... | |
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When I was preparing to pass over into Sicily and Greece, the melancholy intelligence which I received of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose; for I thought it base to be travelling for amusement abroad while my fellow-citizens were... 
