Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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... thinking through the problem . Generally , the humanists , because of their belief in a Creator both rational and good , held as an inevitable assumption that God can not contradict himself . Thus , they reasoned , there can be in ...
... thinking through the problem . Generally , the humanists , because of their belief in a Creator both rational and good , held as an inevitable assumption that God can not contradict himself . Thus , they reasoned , there can be in ...
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... thinking . Though he spent many pages disputing the nature and source of the authority of later Biblical and historical rulers whom the royalists claimed had been kings by divine right , Milton never considered the patriarchalists ...
... thinking . Though he spent many pages disputing the nature and source of the authority of later Biblical and historical rulers whom the royalists claimed had been kings by divine right , Milton never considered the patriarchalists ...
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... thinking like that he attributed to his Chorus in Samson Agonistes , " either to the vigor , or the slacknesse of discipline " ( C.P.W. , I , 751 ) . It is no mere chance , he argued , that rebellion in Ireland now troubles the English ...
... thinking like that he attributed to his Chorus in Samson Agonistes , " either to the vigor , or the slacknesse of discipline " ( C.P.W. , I , 751 ) . It is no mere chance , he argued , that rebellion in Ireland now troubles the English ...
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