Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1 |
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... teachers of the protestant religion , make no more difficulty of imposing upon our belief a suppo , sititious offspring of some dozen epistles , whereof five are rejected as spurious , containing in them heresies and trifles ; which ...
... teachers of the protestant religion , make no more difficulty of imposing upon our belief a suppo , sititious offspring of some dozen epistles , whereof five are rejected as spurious , containing in them heresies and trifles ; which ...
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Concerning . therefore this wayward subject against prelaty , the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous 10 a number of men , as by what hath been said I may deserve of charitable readers to be credited , that neither envy ...
Concerning . therefore this wayward subject against prelaty , the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous 10 a number of men , as by what hath been said I may deserve of charitable readers to be credited , that neither envy ...
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Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch applause , whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be ...
Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch applause , whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be ...
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... in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath liberty to propose to herself , though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that ' epic form whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a ...
... in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath liberty to propose to herself , though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that ' epic form whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a ...
Page 88
... dearest , and most dangerons cheat , the cheat of souls : in the disclosing whereof , if it be harmful to be angry , and withal to cast a lowering smile , when the properest object calls for both , it will be long enough ere any be ...
... dearest , and most dangerons cheat , the cheat of souls : in the disclosing whereof , if it be harmful to be angry , and withal to cast a lowering smile , when the properest object calls for both , it will be long enough ere any be ...
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| Title | Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1 Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, George Burnett |
| Author | John Milton |
| Translated by | George Burnett |
| Publisher | J. Miller, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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