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Page 34
... Rule , the reward of highest excellence and vertue here on earth , were not only to sweare and covnant the performance of an unjust Vow , the strangest and most impious to the face of God , but were the most unwise and unprudential act ...
... Rule , the reward of highest excellence and vertue here on earth , were not only to sweare and covnant the performance of an unjust Vow , the strangest and most impious to the face of God , but were the most unwise and unprudential act ...
Page 37
... rule by the one father but rule by “ families and tribes , " implying a network of relationships in- dicative of a sort of fraternal rule - the " charities / Of father , son and brother , " men in reciprocal union , enjoying rights ...
... rule by the one father but rule by “ families and tribes , " implying a network of relationships in- dicative of a sort of fraternal rule - the " charities / Of father , son and brother , " men in reciprocal union , enjoying rights ...
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... rule , anathema to many readers and to Milton himself throughout his political works . However , the poet successfully mitigated the moral flaws implicit in a hereditary principle in two ways . First , with- out giving Christ another ...
... rule , anathema to many readers and to Milton himself throughout his political works . However , the poet successfully mitigated the moral flaws implicit in a hereditary principle in two ways . First , with- out giving Christ another ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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