A Lecture on the Writings: Prose and Poetic, and Character, Public and Personal, of John Milton, Delivered at Several Metropolitan Literary InstitutionsH. Hooper, 1838 - 55 pages |
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... utter absence of selfishness , the devotion of all his faculties ( which , I repeat , he considered only given him in trust ) to what he felt to be the real benefit of his fellow creatures . Bearing this great and noble principle of ...
... utter absence of selfishness , the devotion of all his faculties ( which , I repeat , he considered only given him in trust ) to what he felt to be the real benefit of his fellow creatures . Bearing this great and noble principle of ...
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... utterly beneath himself and the subject , though pro-- voked to these intemperate sallies by the gross assaults of his opponent . * I shall read a few of these passages in justi- fication of my praises , and as indicative of his motives ...
... utterly beneath himself and the subject , though pro-- voked to these intemperate sallies by the gross assaults of his opponent . * I shall read a few of these passages in justi- fication of my praises , and as indicative of his motives ...
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... the final victory of Truth ; like him , also , let us say , " give us the liberty to " know , to utter , and to argue freely , according to con- " science , above all liberties ! " LECTURE , & c . PART II . THE remainder 33.
... the final victory of Truth ; like him , also , let us say , " give us the liberty to " know , to utter , and to argue freely , according to con- " science , above all liberties ! " LECTURE , & c . PART II . THE remainder 33.
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... his sentiments on some important religious views ; see the Bishop of Winchester's Preface to his Translation of the Treat . of Christ . Doct . , p . 33 , & c . In this state of apparent utter wretchedness , totally deprived 42.
... his sentiments on some important religious views ; see the Bishop of Winchester's Preface to his Translation of the Treat . of Christ . Doct . , p . 33 , & c . In this state of apparent utter wretchedness , totally deprived 42.
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... utter wretchedness , totally deprived of all that should accompany old age , " as honour , love , obedience , troops of friends , " this illustrious being was enjoying a foretaste of a heavenly state of existence in the purely spiritual ...
... utter wretchedness , totally deprived of all that should accompany old age , " as honour , love , obedience , troops of friends , " this illustrious being was enjoying a foretaste of a heavenly state of existence in the purely spiritual ...
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