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... equal toe , A Such W to make was his force of eloquence , the that spake !! 77 The hearers more concern'd than he that Each seem'd to act that part he came to see 2/1194 And none was more a looker - on than he ; boningib So did he move ...
... equal toe , A Such W to make was his force of eloquence , the that spake !! 77 The hearers more concern'd than he that Each seem'd to act that part he came to see 2/1194 And none was more a looker - on than he ; boningib So did he move ...
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... equal to his King , could hard- ly want an audience . -Quid agas , cum dira et fœdior omni Crimine persona est ? As ... equal rapidity , or read with equal very ; that he who had justified the murder of eagerness , is very credible . He ...
... equal to his King , could hard- ly want an audience . -Quid agas , cum dira et fœdior omni Crimine persona est ? As ... equal rapidity , or read with equal very ; that he who had justified the murder of eagerness , is very credible . He ...
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... equal qualifications , aspire to equal hon- ours , who envy the distinctions of merit greater than their own , or who have yet to learn , that The first reply to Milton's " Defensio Populi " in the coalition of human society nothing is ...
... equal qualifications , aspire to equal hon- ours , who envy the distinctions of merit greater than their own , or who have yet to learn , that The first reply to Milton's " Defensio Populi " in the coalition of human society nothing is ...
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... equal danger . But he had still hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or ...
... equal danger . But he had still hope of doing something . He wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or ...
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... equal to his other powers ; Milton , whose warmest ad- vocates must allow that he never spared any as- These bursts of light , and involutions of dark - perity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . ness , these transient and ...
... equal to his other powers ; Milton , whose warmest ad- vocates must allow that he never spared any as- These bursts of light , and involutions of dark - perity of reproach , or brutality of insolence . ness , these transient and ...
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