Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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... defect in their bodily frame , fome aukward peculiarity in their manners or converfation , fome fcandalous calumny tacked to their private hiftory , or fome of thofe natural failings which diftinguifh human from angelic beings .
... defect in their bodily frame , fome aukward peculiarity in their manners or converfation , fome fcandalous calumny tacked to their private hiftory , or fome of thofe natural failings which diftinguifh human from angelic beings .
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Now perfons , " fays he , " fo far ma" nuducted into the highest paths of lite" rature , both divine and human , had they received his documents with the " fame acutenefs of wit and apprehen" fion , the fame induftry , alacrity , and ...
Now perfons , " fays he , " fo far ma" nuducted into the highest paths of lite" rature , both divine and human , had they received his documents with the " fame acutenefs of wit and apprehen" fion , the fame induftry , alacrity , and ...
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They who would reduce mankind to a brutal flavery , under the defpotifm of a lawless tyrant , forfeit all claim to the rationality of human beings ; and no tongue can be called evil for giving them their proper appellation .
They who would reduce mankind to a brutal flavery , under the defpotifm of a lawless tyrant , forfeit all claim to the rationality of human beings ; and no tongue can be called evil for giving them their proper appellation .
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... the prostitution is of fo fingular a nature , that it would be difficult to felect an adequate motive for it out of the Life of Savage , p . 122 , mounmountainous heap of conjectural caufes of human paffions or human caprice [ 153 ]
... the prostitution is of fo fingular a nature , that it would be difficult to felect an adequate motive for it out of the Life of Savage , p . 122 , mounmountainous heap of conjectural caufes of human paffions or human caprice [ 153 ]
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mountainous heap of conjectural caufes of human paffions or human caprice . We allude to the fpeech delivered by the late unhappy Dr. William Dodd , when he was about to hear the fentence of the law pronounced upon him , in confequence ...
mountainous heap of conjectural caufes of human paffions or human caprice . We allude to the fpeech delivered by the late unhappy Dr. William Dodd , when he was about to hear the fentence of the law pronounced upon him , in confequence ...
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica Issue 56 of British culture series, Group IV Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Publisher | Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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