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... called , as it has been , his last letter ( this time in hexam- eters ) . Critics have commonly placed the elegy at the head of Milton's Latin poems , a judgment partly based , one may think , on the feeling that Milton's memorial to ...
... called , as it has been , his last letter ( this time in hexam- eters ) . Critics have commonly placed the elegy at the head of Milton's Latin poems , a judgment partly based , one may think , on the feeling that Milton's memorial to ...
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... called " the general and perpetual voice of men " ; this , in Hooker's words , " is as the sentence of God himself " be- cause it constitutes the law of nature which has universal validity and which God himself could not alter . The two ...
... called " the general and perpetual voice of men " ; this , in Hooker's words , " is as the sentence of God himself " be- cause it constitutes the law of nature which has universal validity and which God himself could not alter . The two ...
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... called the Bacon of the movement . Of economic matters he knew and said little ; but most of the other and it may be thought - more central issues he did treat , and with disinterested zeal for the achievement of both freedom and ...
... called the Bacon of the movement . Of economic matters he knew and said little ; but most of the other and it may be thought - more central issues he did treat , and with disinterested zeal for the achievement of both freedom and ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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