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Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader , that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now in- debted , as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth , or the ...
Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader , that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now in- debted , as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth , or the ...
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| Title | The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2 Bohn's standard library The Prose Works of John Milton, John Milton |
| Author | John Milton |
| Editor | James Augustus St. John |
| Translated by | Charles Richard Sumner |
| Contributor | James Augustus St. John |
| Publisher | H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 13, 2007 |
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