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Page 54
... give the appearance of committing involun- tary suicide : And those Kings and Potentates who have strove most to ridd them- selves of this feare , by cutting off or suppressing the true Church , have drawn upon themselves the occasion ...
... give the appearance of committing involun- tary suicide : And those Kings and Potentates who have strove most to ridd them- selves of this feare , by cutting off or suppressing the true Church , have drawn upon themselves the occasion ...
Page 89
... give these passages of the Defence , for all their clotted allusions , a violent momentum . Each ex- emplum of evil in the state hurries inexorably to an identical conclusion : criminality is only purged by the blood of the crimi- nal ...
... give these passages of the Defence , for all their clotted allusions , a violent momentum . Each ex- emplum of evil in the state hurries inexorably to an identical conclusion : criminality is only purged by the blood of the crimi- nal ...
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... give this speech an es- pecially dramatic stature . In one sense , his argument is so as- tonishingly childish that it is uncertain whether he really believes in what he is saying or whether this is a notion on which he has just ...
... give this speech an es- pecially dramatic stature . In one sense , his argument is so as- tonishingly childish that it is uncertain whether he really believes in what he is saying or whether this is a notion on which he has just ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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