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... tyrant Diony- sius , who had little need of such trash to spend his time on ? But that he knew this licensing of poems had reference and dependence to many other provisoes there set down in his fancied republic , which in this world ...
... tyrant Diony- sius , who had little need of such trash to spend his time on ? But that he knew this licensing of poems had reference and dependence to many other provisoes there set down in his fancied republic , which in this world ...
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... TYRANTS FROM USURPING SUPREME POWER . And all the people of the land rejoiced ; and the city was quiet , after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword . - 2 CHRON . xxiii . 21 . Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from ...
... TYRANTS FROM USURPING SUPREME POWER . And all the people of the land rejoiced ; and the city was quiet , after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword . - 2 CHRON . xxiii . 21 . Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from ...
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... tyrant over whom every man is naturally a judge and an executioner , and whom the laws of God , of Nature , and of nations expose like beasts of prey to be destroyed as they are met . That I may be as plain as I can , I shall first make ...
... tyrant over whom every man is naturally a judge and an executioner , and whom the laws of God , of Nature , and of nations expose like beasts of prey to be destroyed as they are met . That I may be as plain as I can , I shall first make ...
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called a tyrant because he hath no right to govern ; the other because he governs tyrannically . We will very briefly discourse of them both , and see whether the Protector may not with great justice put in his claim to both titles . We ...
called a tyrant because he hath no right to govern ; the other because he governs tyrannically . We will very briefly discourse of them both , and see whether the Protector may not with great justice put in his claim to both titles . We ...
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... tyrant , his own impudence cannot deny but he is as complete a one as ever hath been since there have been societies of men . He that hath done , and does all this , is the person for whose preservation the people of England must pray ...
... tyrant , his own impudence cannot deny but he is as complete a one as ever hath been since there have been societies of men . He that hath done , and does all this , is the person for whose preservation the people of England must pray ...
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Act of Parliament aforesaid Anne of Denmark AREOPAGITICA Athaliah authority Britain called cause Church of England civil clergy cloth Coloured Commonwealth conscience contrary to law Crown of England declare defend deliverance enemies England and Scotland entitled An Act Essay on Miracles evil favour Fcap France French give hand HARRISON WEIR hath heirs high treason Highness's History honour House House of Hanover J. G. WOOD justice kill King James King William kingdom of Scotland kingdoms of England late King learning licensing live Lords and Commons Lords Spiritual magistrate Majesty Majesty's manner ment nation nature oaths opinion pamphlet Papists peace person or persons plain poem Popish prelates Princess Anne Princess Sophia printed Queen realm reason reign religion rights and liberties royal secure spirit Spiritual and Temporal story suppress testimony thereof things thought tion truth tyranny tyrant union unto virtue
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Page 60 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 313 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 273 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Page 307 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 312 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 311 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 310 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 37 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion, or deportment be taught our youth, but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, but must be licensed what they may say.
Page 29 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.
Page 309 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
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Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship ... Mark Knights No preview available - 2005 |