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Page 107
... active participation , of those few who are properly in possession , not of property , but of reason : ' for nothing is more agreeable to the order of nature , or more for the interest of mankind , than that the less should yield to the ...
... active participation , of those few who are properly in possession , not of property , but of reason : ' for nothing is more agreeable to the order of nature , or more for the interest of mankind , than that the less should yield to the ...
Page 118
... active within it . The Holy Spirit fares even worse at Milton's hands . The chapter , ' Of the Holy Spirit ' , 111 in the Treatise on Christian Doctrine , contains little more than an embarrassed account of how little we know about this ...
... active within it . The Holy Spirit fares even worse at Milton's hands . The chapter , ' Of the Holy Spirit ' , 111 in the Treatise on Christian Doctrine , contains little more than an embarrassed account of how little we know about this ...
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... active virtue , the virtue that challenges tyranny . And it is this second , active virtue , the virtue of the warrior and of the revolutionary , which provides Samson Agonistes with its real thematic focus . The Chorus's suggestion ...
... active virtue , the virtue that challenges tyranny . And it is this second , active virtue , the virtue of the warrior and of the revolutionary , which provides Samson Agonistes with its real thematic focus . The Chorus's suggestion ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
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