Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... religious opinions , and tolerant towards those of others . The book itself will not add much to the fame of Milton . It is , like all his Latin works , well written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and ...
... religious opinions , and tolerant towards those of others . The book itself will not add much to the fame of Milton . It is , like all his Latin works , well written , though not exactly in the style of the prize essays of Oxford and ...
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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 dexterity 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 dexterity of an advocate , while affecting the impartiality of a judge . The public conduct of Milton must be ...
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... religious opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make proselytes , he had contented himself with exerting only his constitutional influence for that purpose , the the Prince of Orange would ever have been ...
... religious opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make proselytes , he had contented himself with exerting only his constitutional influence for that purpose , the the Prince of Orange would ever have been ...
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... religious zeal , not more sincere than that of his son , and fully as weak and narrow - minded , and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them . A good father ! A ...
... religious zeal , not more sincere than that of his son , and fully as weak and narrow - minded , and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them . A good father ! A ...
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