Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 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 suc- cess . 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 suc- cess . 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 advo- cate , 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 advo- cate , 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 pro- selytes , he had contented himself with exerting only his con- stitutional influence for that purpose , the Prince of Orange would ever have been ...
... religious opinions without wishing to make proselytes , or if , wishing even to make pro- selytes , he had contented himself with exerting only his con- stitutional influence for that purpose , the Prince of Orange would ever have been ...
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... religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay , not between Cromwell and liberty , but between Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose well , no man can doubt who fairly ...
... religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay , not between Cromwell and liberty , but between Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose well , no man can doubt who fairly ...
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