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... vertue chastity sure must be , to the defence of which so many worthies by such a deare adventure of themselves had sworne.3 And if I found in the story afterward any of them by word or deed breaking that oath , I judg'd it the same ...
... vertue chastity sure must be , to the defence of which so many worthies by such a deare adventure of themselves had sworne.3 And if I found in the story afterward any of them by word or deed breaking that oath , I judg'd it the same ...
Page 91
... vertue to order wel one house ; but to govern a Nation piously , and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest mettle . And cer- tainly of no lesse a mind , nor of lesse excellence in ...
... vertue to order wel one house ; but to govern a Nation piously , and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest mettle . And cer- tainly of no lesse a mind , nor of lesse excellence in ...
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... vertue , un- exercis'd & unbreath'd , that never sallies out and sees her adversary , but slinks out of the race ... vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evill , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to ...
... vertue , un- exercis'd & unbreath'd , that never sallies out and sees her adversary , but slinks out of the race ... vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evill , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to ...
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Milton in the Seventeenth Century | 15 |
From The Reason of ChurchGovernment 1642 | 49 |
From An Apology for Smectymnuus 1642 | 61 |
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