Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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Page 88
... claim as his justification ? " To be weak is miserable / Doing or Suffer- ing , " Satan asserts ; but Milton insists , " in some things to be overcome is more honest and laudable than to conquer . ' Satan claims his ability to suffer ...
... claim as his justification ? " To be weak is miserable / Doing or Suffer- ing , " Satan asserts ; but Milton insists , " in some things to be overcome is more honest and laudable than to conquer . ' Satan claims his ability to suffer ...
Page 89
... claim : God's goodness , not his omnipotence , is his primary attribute ; the royalist claim reduced God to the level of the malevolent demons whom barbarians worship because they cannot exorcise them ( Chapter Two , p . 58 ) . It is ...
... claim : God's goodness , not his omnipotence , is his primary attribute ; the royalist claim reduced God to the level of the malevolent demons whom barbarians worship because they cannot exorcise them ( Chapter Two , p . 58 ) . It is ...
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... claim , first that strength can determine right among equals , and second that an angel can be an equal of God , then we are at the heart of the matter of liberty . We must then answer to Beelzebub's praise of Satan as a Prince that ...
... claim , first that strength can determine right among equals , and second that an angel can be an equal of God , then we are at the heart of the matter of liberty . We must then answer to Beelzebub's praise of Satan as a Prince that ...
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