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Page 117
... liberty they pretended , but unfitted also the people , now grown worse and more disordinate , to receive or digest any liberty at all . ' Here speaks the revolu- tionary idealist , disappointed in his hopes . The people never had been ...
... liberty they pretended , but unfitted also the people , now grown worse and more disordinate , to receive or digest any liberty at all . ' Here speaks the revolu- tionary idealist , disappointed in his hopes . The people never had been ...
Page 156
... liberty itself . ' We begin to sicken at the reiteration of the word ' liberty ' , when Milton identifies himself with military dictatorship . Facts are all in all in history , and only power decides . However , ' I did not disappoint ...
... liberty itself . ' We begin to sicken at the reiteration of the word ' liberty ' , when Milton identifies himself with military dictatorship . Facts are all in all in history , and only power decides . However , ' I did not disappoint ...
Page 157
... liberty than to material welfare- witness Communist Russia or China , Mrs Gandhi's India or black Africa . - The second Defence is remarkable for its adulation of the dic- tator - this is what Milton's liberty had come to , this is what ...
... liberty than to material welfare- witness Communist Russia or China , Mrs Gandhi's India or black Africa . - The second Defence is remarkable for its adulation of the dic- tator - this is what Milton's liberty had come to , this is what ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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