Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England for the Liberty of Unlicensed PrintingRalph Holland & Company, 1905 - 100 pages |
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... wit is always poor and without ease . An absence of idiomatic grace , and an use of harsh inversions violating the rules of the language , distinguish , in general , the writings of Milton , and require , in order to compensate them ...
... wit is always poor and without ease . An absence of idiomatic grace , and an use of harsh inversions violating the rules of the language , distinguish , in general , the writings of Milton , and require , in order to compensate them ...
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... wits of Britain , before the labour'd ftudies of the French . Nor is it for nothing that the grave and frugal Tranfilvanian fends out yearly from as farre as the mountanous borders of Ruffia , and beyond the Hercynian wildernes , not ...
... wits of Britain , before the labour'd ftudies of the French . Nor is it for nothing that the grave and frugal Tranfilvanian fends out yearly from as farre as the mountanous borders of Ruffia , and beyond the Hercynian wildernes , not ...
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... wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece , I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of ; those either 170 blasphemous and atheistical , or libellous . Thus the books of Protagoras ...
... wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece , I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of ; those either 170 blasphemous and atheistical , or libellous . Thus the books of Protagoras ...
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... wits and philosophers of Athens . 643. but fixed by . by , except that 645 , 646. And there also , and there he also . are 648. allowed , approved . 651. to be expelled , deserv- ing of expulsion . A Latinism . 652. wanton epigrams and ...
... wits and philosophers of Athens . 643. but fixed by . by , except that 645 , 646. And there also , and there he also . are 648. allowed , approved . 651. to be expelled , deserv- ing of expulsion . A Latinism . 652. wanton epigrams and ...
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... wit , the grave and solid judgment which is in 929. venturous , bold . 931. suiting with , in agree- ment with . 931. decrepit , lit. , noise- less , hence feeble . L. decrepitus , 932. Knox , the great Scotch Reformer lived 1515-1572 ...
... wit , the grave and solid judgment which is in 929. venturous , bold . 931. suiting with , in agree- ment with . 931. decrepit , lit. , noise- less , hence feeble . L. decrepitus , 932. Knox , the great Scotch Reformer lived 1515-1572 ...
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