 I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me that a free commonwealth without single person or House of Lords is by far the best government, if it can be had; but we have all this while, say they, been expecting it, and cannot...  The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine - Page 247edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1809 - 636 pages
...to imitate them therein f I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me, that a free commonwealth without single person, or house of lords, is by far the b«6t government, if it can be had ; but we have all this while, say they, been expecting it, and cannot... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...to imitate them therein 1" "1 doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree wiih me, that a free Commonwealth, without single person or House of Lords, is by far the best governmeat, if it can be had." *" Op the contrary, if there be a king, which the inconsiderate multitude... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...to imitate them therein f I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me, that a free commonwealth, without single person or...lords, is by far the best government if it can be had ; but we have all this while, say they, been expecting it, and cannot vet attain it. It is true indeed,... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...hereditary right over them, I do'.ibt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me, that a free commonwealth, without single person or house of lords, is by far the best government ; for the ground and basis of every just and free government, is a general council of ablest men chosen... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...imitate them t hi rein Î" " I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree wilh me, that a free Commonwealth, without single person or House of Lords, is by for the best government, if it can be had." " On the contrary, if there be a king, which the inconsiderate... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 564 pages
...to imitate them therein ? I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me, that a free commonwealth without single person or...lords is by far the best government, if it can be had ; but we have all this while, say they, been expecting it, and cannot yet attain it. It is true indeed,... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...to imitate them therein ? I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me, that a free commonwealth without single person or...lords is by far the best government, if it can be had ; but we have all this while, say they, been expecting it, and cannot yet attain it. It is true, indeed,... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - Democracy - 1866 - 446 pages
...ibid., pp. 648, 654, and 655. " I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me that a free commonwealth without single person or...of Lords is by far the best Government if it can be had."—Milton, ibid., p. 647. And Montesquieu, whose writings on the Spirit of Laws, and on the causes... | |
 | David Masson - English literature - 1877 - 730 pages
...progress among the perpetual bowings and cringings of an abject people." Having1 thus expressed his belief that " a Free Commonwealth, without Single Person...of Lords, is by far the best government, if it can le had" Milton glances at the 1 This is one of Milton's very long think, the glow and rapidity of the... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...over them as their lord. " I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me, that a free commonwealth, without single person or...Lords, is by far the best government, if it can be had. " For the ground and basis of every just and free government (since men have smarted so oft for committing... | |
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