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Page 38
... opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his elegies , declares , that with the advance of the spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that ...
... opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his elegies , declares , that with the advance of the spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that ...
Page 40
... opinion , and the im- partiality of a future generation . In the mean time he continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells us , " that ...
... opinion , and the im- partiality of a future generation . In the mean time he continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells us , " that ...
Page 41
... opinions are , profess to derive them from the Sacred Books . The papists appeal to other testimonies , and are therefore , in his opinion , not to be permitted the liberty of either public or private worship ; for though they plead ...
... opinions are , profess to derive them from the Sacred Books . The papists appeal to other testimonies , and are therefore , in his opinion , not to be permitted the liberty of either public or private worship ; for though they plead ...
Page 42
... opinion , too detest- able to be read on the wall of a building dedicat- ed to devotion . Atterbury , who succeeded him , being author of the inscription , permitted its re- ception . " And such has been the change of public opinion ...
... opinion , too detest- able to be read on the wall of a building dedicat- ed to devotion . Atterbury , who succeeded him , being author of the inscription , permitted its re- ception . " And such has been the change of public opinion ...
Page 43
... opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the ... opinion , and to have lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew ...
... opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the ... opinion , and to have lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew ...
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