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meaning ) men , who may be led to think that truth , judgment , and impartiality are small matters , when contrasted with what Dr.Johnson's admirers have thought fit to call , an inimitable elegance of stile and composition .
meaning ) men , who may be led to think that truth , judgment , and impartiality are small matters , when contrasted with what Dr.Johnson's admirers have thought fit to call , an inimitable elegance of stile and composition .
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“ Lauder's mo“ tives were , a strict regard to truth “ alone , & c . and none of them taken “ from any difference of country , or of « sentiments in political or religious 60 matters t . " This Lauder , in his pamphlet of 1754 ...
“ Lauder's mo“ tives were , a strict regard to truth “ alone , & c . and none of them taken “ from any difference of country , or of « sentiments in political or religious 60 matters t . " This Lauder , in his pamphlet of 1754 ...
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If Toland , and Milton's Biographers , subsequent to Philips , made more of this matter than Philips's history authorized , we do not commend them . But it was * Philips , p . xxi . E 4 surely surely the business of a new narrative to ...
If Toland , and Milton's Biographers , subsequent to Philips , made more of this matter than Philips's history authorized , we do not commend them . But it was * Philips , p . xxi . E 4 surely surely the business of a new narrative to ...
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... concerning " this matter ; but I do not find that he “ was convened on purpose by the coun“ cil , or the high court of justice , as if “ they all of them troubled themselves “ : about it , or were solicitous to know << it * " From ...
... concerning " this matter ; but I do not find that he “ was convened on purpose by the coun“ cil , or the high court of justice , as if “ they all of them troubled themselves “ : about it , or were solicitous to know << it * " From ...
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addressed to him , was evidently a compliment founded on the expectation that he would lay the ground - work of a free toleration in matters of religion , without which he saw ( what Dr. Johnson never will see ) that civil liberty can ...
addressed to him , was evidently a compliment founded on the expectation that he would lay the ground - work of a free toleration in matters of religion , without which he saw ( what Dr. Johnson never will see ) that civil liberty can ...
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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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