Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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... of fpeech which repre-fents Christopher Milton , as taught by the law to adhere to king Charles , who was breaking the law every day by a thoufand of thofe arbitrary acts and oppreffions which make up the defcription of a tyrant .
... of fpeech which repre-fents Christopher Milton , as taught by the law to adhere to king Charles , who was breaking the law every day by a thoufand of thofe arbitrary acts and oppreffions which make up the defcription of a tyrant .
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... on the Reafon of Church - Govern* The expreffion was familiar to this writer : " At Edial , near Litchfield , in Staffordshire , " young gentlemen are boarded , and taught the " Latin and Greek Languages , by SAMUEL " JOHNSON .
... on the Reafon of Church - Govern* The expreffion was familiar to this writer : " At Edial , near Litchfield , in Staffordshire , " young gentlemen are boarded , and taught the " Latin and Greek Languages , by SAMUEL " JOHNSON .
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They are un466 willing that Milton fhould be degrad" ed to a school - mafter ; but fince it can66 not be denied that he taught boys , one " finds out that he taught for nothing ; " and another , that his motive was only " zeal for the ...
They are un466 willing that Milton fhould be degrad" ed to a school - mafter ; but fince it can66 not be denied that he taught boys , one " finds out that he taught for nothing ; " and another , that his motive was only " zeal for the ...
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Whether Toland knew the particulars of Milton's motives , must be left to God and his own confcience ; but to say that " Milton had no fordid or mercenary " purposes " will not imply that he taught for nothing .
Whether Toland knew the particulars of Milton's motives , must be left to God and his own confcience ; but to say that " Milton had no fordid or mercenary " purposes " will not imply that he taught for nothing .
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And then , follows the wife obfervation , that " no" body can be taught fafter than he can " learn * . " But who were thefe youth ? Even his fifter's two fons , ( perhaps only one of them , the younger ) ; as appears by what Philips ...
And then , follows the wife obfervation , that " no" body can be taught fafter than he can " learn * . " But who were thefe youth ? Even his fifter's two fons , ( perhaps only one of them , the younger ) ; as appears by what Philips ...
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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 | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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