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... ideal was the democratic and nonliturgical simplicity of the apostolic church as they saw it in the New Testament . This is the core of the matter in Milton's first tract of 1641 , as it had been during the previous eighty years , years ...
... ideal was the democratic and nonliturgical simplicity of the apostolic church as they saw it in the New Testament . This is the core of the matter in Milton's first tract of 1641 , as it had been during the previous eighty years , years ...
Page 126
... ideal was the Platonic philosopher - king . But this conception was fused with one no less " aristocratic " in the religious sense , the Puritan ideal of the rule of the saints , who , like the biblical Israelites , were an island of ...
... ideal was the Platonic philosopher - king . But this conception was fused with one no less " aristocratic " in the religious sense , the Puritan ideal of the rule of the saints , who , like the biblical Israelites , were an island of ...
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... ideal and nostalgic radiance , among them that most beautiful and poignant of all similes , which suggests both the fate of Eve and the transiency of all earthly beauty : Not that fair field Of Enna , where Prosérpine gathering flow'rs ...
... ideal and nostalgic radiance , among them that most beautiful and poignant of all similes , which suggests both the fate of Eve and the transiency of all earthly beauty : Not that fair field Of Enna , where Prosérpine gathering flow'rs ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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