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Page 196
... nonsense , quite as much as his political doc- trines , if not more so . For he did not have to believe nonsense even in the time in which he lived . Many people in the Renais- sance period , still more in the later seventeenth century ...
... nonsense , quite as much as his political doc- trines , if not more so . For he did not have to believe nonsense even in the time in which he lived . Many people in the Renais- sance period , still more in the later seventeenth century ...
Page 197
... nonsense . It is true that what most people believe , and have believed , in all times and all places has been largely nonsense ; but even in the seventeenth century Milton did not have to believe it . Neither Hobbes nor Selden did ...
... nonsense . It is true that what most people believe , and have believed , in all times and all places has been largely nonsense ; but even in the seventeenth century Milton did not have to believe it . Neither Hobbes nor Selden did ...
Page 237
... nonsense knots , the kind of insoluble dilemma that arises from subscrip- tion to nonsense premises . Like that of the Problem of Pain , which gave C. S. Lewis such excruciating difficulty : how an omnipotent and omniscient Creator , an ...
... nonsense knots , the kind of insoluble dilemma that arises from subscrip- tion to nonsense premises . Like that of the Problem of Pain , which gave C. S. Lewis such excruciating difficulty : how an omnipotent and omniscient Creator , an ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Paradise Lost | 215 |
Milton Christ and Samson | 243 |
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