SELECT

PROSE WORKS

OF

MILTON.

ACCOUNT OF HIS OWN STUDIES.

OLOGY FOR HIS EARLY LIFE AND WRITINGS.

TRACTATE ON EDUCATION.

AREOPAGITICA.

TENURE OF KINGS.

VOL. I.

WITH

A Preliminary Discourse and Notes,

BY

J. A. ST. JOHN.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THE PROPRIETOR;

AND PUBLISHED BY

J. HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY;

OLIVER AND BOYD, EDINBURGH;

AND CUMMING, DUBLIN.

1836.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH RICKERBY,
SHERBOURN LANE.

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THIS VOLUME,

THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF THE

NOBLEST PRODUCTIONS

of

ENGLISH PROSE

LITERATURE,

is presented

TO THE PUBLIC,

in the hope of

INSPIRING A DISPOSITION TO A RENEWED INTERCOURSE

with the

IN MEMORY OF
LIONEL DE JERSEY HARVARD
CLASS OF 1915

Dec.27 1926
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Οὐδὲν γὰρ οἶμαι τοσοῦτον κακὸν εἶναι ἀνθρώπῳ ὅσον δόξα ψευδὴς περὶ ὧν τυγχάνει νῦν ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος ὤν.

Plato: Gorg.

There is no greater evil incident to man, than to entertain false opinions on the subjects we have here under discussion.

Entre les arts liberaux, commençons par l'art qui nous fait libres."-Montaigne.

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