Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... religion . Reformers have often made a stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and partial success . The men who demolished the images in Cathedrals have not always been able to demolish those which were ...
... religion . Reformers have often made a stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and partial success . The men who demolished the images in Cathedrals have not always been able to demolish those which were ...
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... religion so much that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion , and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dex- terity of an advocate while affecting the impartiality of a judge . The public conduct of Milton must be ...
... religion so much that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion , and has pleaded the cause of tyranny with the dex- terity of an advocate while affecting the impartiality of a judge . The public conduct of Milton must be ...
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... religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay , not between Cromwell and liberty , but between Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose well , no man can doubt who fairly ...
... religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay , not between Cromwell and liberty , but between Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose well , no man can doubt who fairly ...
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... regu- lated the policy of the state . The government had just ability enough to deceive , and just religion enough to persecute . The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier , and the Ana- MILTON . 47.
... regu- lated the policy of the state . The government had just ability enough to deceive , and just religion enough to persecute . The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier , and the Ana- MILTON . 47.
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... religion . There was another party , by no means numerous , but dis- tinguished by learning and ability , which ... religious subjects , but passionate wor- shippers of freedom . Heated by the study of ancient literature , they set up ...
... religion . There was another party , by no means numerous , but dis- tinguished by learning and ability , which ... religious subjects , but passionate wor- shippers of freedom . Heated by the study of ancient literature , they set up ...
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