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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 68
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Literary Forgeries

James Anson Farrer - 1907 - 320 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the...Deity ... as immediately before his death to pop into that grave bishop who attended him for a special relique of his saintly exercises a prayer stolen word...
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The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

Jean Jules Jusserand - 1908 - 454 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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Sir Philip Sidney

Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 434 pages
...worded. Milton, who made the devil a saint, anticipating Goethe and Sir Herbert Tree, wrote in horror: "Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office it is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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Studies in Milton

Sten Bodvar Liljegren - 1918 - 220 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his Iconoclastes, with the use of this prayer as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...the hands of the grave bishop that attended him, as a special relique of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his Iconoclastes, with the use of this prayer as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity—as, immediately before his death, to pop into the hands of the grave Bishop that attended him,...
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Milton on Education, the Tractate Of Education

John Milton - 1928 - 402 pages
...[Richard] a deep dissembler, not of his affections only, but of religion. * [The Wrong Use of a Good Book.] Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true allseeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, Whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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Milton on Education: The Tractate Of Education, with Supplementary Extracts ...

John Milton - 1928 - 408 pages
...[Richard] a deep dissembler, not of his affections only, but of religion. l [The Wrong Use of a Good Book.] Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true allseeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, Whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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Educational Foundations: A Text Book for the Professional Teacher, Volume 17

1906 - 884 pages
...prosperity had emboldened tb« advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great: "^>° would have imagined so little fear in him of the true...the hands of the grave bishop that attended him, as a special relic of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen...
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose

Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his Eikonoklastes, with the use of this prayer as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity—as, immediately before his death, to pop into the hands of the grave bishop that attended him,...
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Milton's Legacy

Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - 2005 - 278 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his Iconoclastes, with the use of this prayer as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great" (1:110-11). Instead of asserting Milton's guilt here, as some have maintained, it is important to note...
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