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... Areopagitica - may at first sight seem anomalous in a Calvinist , but Milton was still a Calvinist in 1644-1645 , as he indicates in his refer- ences to Arminius in the Doctrine and Discipline ( II.iii ) and Areopagitica . The fact is a ...
... Areopagitica - may at first sight seem anomalous in a Calvinist , but Milton was still a Calvinist in 1644-1645 , as he indicates in his refer- ences to Arminius in the Doctrine and Discipline ( II.iii ) and Areopagitica . The fact is a ...
Page 94
... Areopagitica . But if the tract is in one sense timeless , its strategy and much of its substance were conditioned by immediate circumstances . During 1644 the predominant theme of controversy had been religious toleration . In Areopagitica ...
... Areopagitica . But if the tract is in one sense timeless , its strategy and much of its substance were conditioned by immediate circumstances . During 1644 the predominant theme of controversy had been religious toleration . In Areopagitica ...
Page 96
... Areopagitica seems to have been written with more care than most of Milton's previous tracts , and he was tactful in addressing parliament and praising its achievements ; yet these made all the more regrettable such backsliding on so ...
... Areopagitica seems to have been written with more care than most of Milton's previous tracts , and he was tactful in addressing parliament and praising its achievements ; yet these made all the more regrettable such backsliding on so ...
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