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... authority , of the ' undigested heap , and frie of Authors , which they call Antiquity ' ( 626 ) and his style has all the colloquial , satirical edge allowed by authorities on rhetoric . He sometimes writes as if he were facing the ...
... authority , of the ' undigested heap , and frie of Authors , which they call Antiquity ' ( 626 ) and his style has all the colloquial , satirical edge allowed by authorities on rhetoric . He sometimes writes as if he were facing the ...
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... authority and tradition . Thirteen bishops had been impeached on 4 August . Milton refers to the impeachment near the beginning of his tract . On 30 December the bishops were arrested and imprisoned on charges of treason . In the latter ...
... authority and tradition . Thirteen bishops had been impeached on 4 August . Milton refers to the impeachment near the beginning of his tract . On 30 December the bishops were arrested and imprisoned on charges of treason . In the latter ...
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... authority is defined by their godliness ( the wonderful figure ' native honour clad ' is based on the formulation of Psalm 104.1 and refers also to divine image ) , but the insertion of the word ' true ' - ' Whence true authority in men ...
... authority is defined by their godliness ( the wonderful figure ' native honour clad ' is based on the formulation of Psalm 104.1 and refers also to divine image ) , but the insertion of the word ' true ' - ' Whence true authority in men ...
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the Vacation Exercise and Early Latin | 1 |
the Nativity Ode | 19 |
Italy Politics and the Voice of Authority | 59 |
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