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" ... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees... "
Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development - Page 359
by Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 396 pages
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Paradise regain'd, a poem. To which is added Samson agonistes; and Poems ...

John Milton - 1747 - 240 pages
...Cohteitiplation of Juftice and Equity, which was never taught them, but on the promifing and pleifing Thoughts of litigious Terms, fat Contentions, and flowing Fees; others betake' them to State-Affairs, with Sonls fo unprincipled in Virtue, arid true generou* Breeding, that Flattery, and...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1753 - 374 pages
...the trade of law, grounding their purpofes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of juftice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleafmg thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees; others betake them to ftate...
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British Education: Or, The Source of the Disorders of Great Britain: Being ...

Thomas Sheridan - Education - 1756 - 434 pages
...contemplation of juftice and ' equity (which was never taught them) but on ' the promifing and pleafing thoughts of litigious ' terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. Others * betake them to ftate affairs, with fouls fo unprincipled in virtue, and true generous breed' ing, that flattery, and...
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REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON.

Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...contemplation of juftice •and equity which was never taught them, but on the promifing and pleafmg thoughts, of litigious terms, fat contentions, and...flowing fees ; others betake them to State affairs, with fouls fo unprincipl'd in vertue, and true generous breeding, that flattery and court fhifts and tyrannous...
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Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate ...

Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
...heavenly contemplation of juftice and equity which was never taught them, but on the promifing and pleafmg thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and...flowing fees ; others betake them to State affairs, with fouls fo unprincipl'd in vertue, and true generous breeding, that flattery and court fhifts and tyrannous...
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The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on ..., Volume 2

Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...either to an ambitious, or mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity : some allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and...virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery, and court-shifts, and tyrannous aphorisms, appear to them the highest points of wisdom : instilling their...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...contemplation of juftice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promifing and pleafing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees ; others betake them to ftate affairs, with fouls fo unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding* that flattery and courtfhifts...
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 11

Great Britain - 1807 - 542 pages
...to an ambitious and njeicenarj, . or ignorandy zealous divinity ; sonjeaitured to the trade of Jaw, grounding their purposes, not on the prudent and heavenly...and equity, which was never taught them, but on the premising and pleasing thoughts of litigious teims,. fat contentions, and flowing tees ; cithers betake...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...either to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity ; some allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and...virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery and courtshifts and tyrannous aphorisms appear to them the highest points of wisdom ; instilling their...
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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of ..., Volume 1

John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...the laurels for which he sighed, without seeing the serpents which basked amidst their leaves, " An which was never taught them, but on the promising...thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.""Tasso is much better humoured, but still he does not view with a very favourable eye his juvenile...
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