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In his alliance with Dr. Johnfon , cemented by their mutual antipathy to Milton's principles of civil and religious government , he found a paternal indulgence of his fplenetic animofity . Milton was a Whig , and therefore muft be a ...
In his alliance with Dr. Johnfon , cemented by their mutual antipathy to Milton's principles of civil and religious government , he found a paternal indulgence of his fplenetic animofity . Milton was a Whig , and therefore muft be a ...
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... fentiments in political or religious " matters t . " This Lauder , in his pamphlet of 1754 , exprefsly contradicted , and avowed motives of party and prenieditated deception . Here the cat leaped * King Charles I. vindicated , p .
... fentiments in political or religious " matters t . " This Lauder , in his pamphlet of 1754 , exprefsly contradicted , and avowed motives of party and prenieditated deception . Here the cat leaped * King Charles I. vindicated , p .
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... if every murmurer at go" vernment may diffufe difcontent , there " can be no peace ; if every sceptic in " theology may teach his follies , there 66 can be no religion . " 66 Is it not better that power fhould be ' the Is £ 60 ] } .
... if every murmurer at go" vernment may diffufe difcontent , there " can be no peace ; if every sceptic in " theology may teach his follies , there 66 can be no religion . " 66 Is it not better that power fhould be ' the Is £ 60 ] } .
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Is it not better that power fhould be ' the standard of truth , than that we should ' have no fettlement , no peace , no religion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnson ...
Is it not better that power fhould be ' the standard of truth , than that we should ' have no fettlement , no peace , no religion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnson ...
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If there can be no religion upon the fuppofition that every fceptic may teach his follies , I am afraid the Doctor hiinfelf can have no religion ; for fuch fceptics may and do teach their follies every day with all freedom .
If there can be no religion upon the fuppofition that every fceptic may teach his follies , I am afraid the Doctor hiinfelf can have no religion ; for fuch fceptics may and do teach their follies every day with all freedom .
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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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