Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... Doctrine , compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone . By JOHN MILTON , translated from the Original by Charles R. Sumner ... Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and Toland , Milton finished after the Restoration , and ...
... Doctrine , compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone . By JOHN MILTON , translated from the Original by Charles R. Sumner ... Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and Toland , Milton finished after the Restoration , and ...
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... doctrines which he avows seemed to have excited considerable amazement , particularly his Arianism , and his theory on the subject of polygamy . Yet we can scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without ...
... doctrines which he avows seemed to have excited considerable amazement , particularly his Arianism , and his theory on the subject of polygamy . Yet we can scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without ...
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... Doctrines , we are afraid , must generally be embodied before they can excite a strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insignificant name , than for the most important ...
... Doctrines , we are afraid , must generally be embodied before they can excite a strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insignificant name , than for the most important ...
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... doctrine of Divine Right which has now come back to us , like a thief from transportation , under the alias of Legitimacy . But mention the miseries of Ireland . Then William is a hero . Then Somers and Shrewsbury are great men . Then ...
... doctrine of Divine Right which has now come back to us , like a thief from transportation , under the alias of Legitimacy . But mention the miseries of Ireland . Then William is a hero . Then Somers and Shrewsbury are great men . Then ...
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... with the manifold treasons of the house of Guise , and with the massacre of St. Bartholomew . Several authors have hinted that the Gunpowder Plot is to be primarily attributed to his doctrines , and seem to think MACHIAVELLI.
... with the manifold treasons of the house of Guise , and with the massacre of St. Bartholomew . Several authors have hinted that the Gunpowder Plot is to be primarily attributed to his doctrines , and seem to think MACHIAVELLI.
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