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The other will of course recommend itself to all advocates for the liberty of the press , .and moreover may , in half an hour's reading , entertain some of the public with a contrast between the magnanimity of Milton , in facing a ...
The other will of course recommend itself to all advocates for the liberty of the press , .and moreover may , in half an hour's reading , entertain some of the public with a contrast between the magnanimity of Milton , in facing a ...
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But it was not for the reputation of Dr. Johnson's politics that Milton should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a less eminent hand than his own . The minute snarlers , or spumose declamers against the sentiments and diction ...
But it was not for the reputation of Dr. Johnson's politics that Milton should be abused for his principles of Liberty by a less eminent hand than his own . The minute snarlers , or spumose declamers against the sentiments and diction ...
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... principles that are at enmity with every patron of public liberty , and every pleader for the legal rights of Englishmen , which , in their origin , are neither more nor less than the natural rights of all mankind .
... principles that are at enmity with every patron of public liberty , and every pleader for the legal rights of Englishmen , which , in their origin , are neither more nor less than the natural rights of all mankind .
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... great promises and small perfor“ mances , on the man who hastens home “ because his countrymen are contending for their liberty , and when he " reaches the scene of action vapours away his patriotism in a private board“ ing school .
... great promises and small perfor“ mances , on the man who hastens home “ because his countrymen are contending for their liberty , and when he " reaches the scene of action vapours away his patriotism in a private board“ ing school .
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... should be restrained from the camp in those unnatural commotions * ; “ and whence Dr. Johnson takes the liberty to fubfume : But Milton was re“ strained from the camp , therefore his patriotism was vapoured away .
... should be restrained from the camp in those unnatural commotions * ; “ and whence Dr. Johnson takes the liberty to fubfume : But Milton was re“ strained from the camp , therefore his patriotism was vapoured away .
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton: To which are Added Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Published | 1780 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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