REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON.1780 - 381 pages |
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... printing feveral fingle fermons of the most emi- nent preachers of that time , many of them against Popery , on vile paper and print , for pence a piece , to the great comfort and convenience of minute divines in country churches . Dr ...
... printing feveral fingle fermons of the most emi- nent preachers of that time , many of them against Popery , on vile paper and print , for pence a piece , to the great comfort and convenience of minute divines in country churches . Dr ...
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... printing . " If fuch toleration fhould have its free course , unrestrained by canons , fubfcrip- tions , and uniformity - acts , unallured by temporal emoluments , and unterrified by temporal cenfures , there must of course be an end of ...
... printing . " If fuch toleration fhould have its free course , unrestrained by canons , fubfcrip- tions , and uniformity - acts , unallured by temporal emoluments , and unterrified by temporal cenfures , there must of course be an end of ...
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... SACHEVERELL in his rear * , * See an Effay on the King's Friends , printed for Almon , 776. p.19 . humorous drole , furveying the fuperb decorations of emblematic feulpture L 3 he [ 49 ] deferved, we rather choose to add a fhort ...
... SACHEVERELL in his rear * , * See an Effay on the King's Friends , printed for Almon , 776. p.19 . humorous drole , furveying the fuperb decorations of emblematic feulpture L 3 he [ 49 ] deferved, we rather choose to add a fhort ...
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... SACHEVERELL in his rear * , * See an Effay on the King's Friends , printed for Almon , 776. p.19 . he fpeculated upon virtual representation , tyranny , taxation , L 3 he [ 49 ] deferved, we rather choose to add a fhort ...
... SACHEVERELL in his rear * , * See an Effay on the King's Friends , printed for Almon , 776. p.19 . he fpeculated upon virtual representation , tyranny , taxation , L 3 he [ 49 ] deferved, we rather choose to add a fhort ...
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... printed Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton , the thanks we think he well deferves , as an able co- operator with us in the defence of Milton . The friends of Milton are par- ticularly obliged to him , for remarking Dr. Newton's ...
... printed Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton , the thanks we think he well deferves , as an able co- operator with us in the defence of Milton . The friends of Milton are par- ticularly obliged to him , for remarking Dr. Newton's ...
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