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... Rule , the reward of highest excellence and vertue here on earth , were not only to sweare and covnant the performance of an unjust Vow , the strangest and most impious to the face of God , but were the most unwise and unprudential act ...
... Rule , the reward of highest excellence and vertue here on earth , were not only to sweare and covnant the performance of an unjust Vow , the strangest and most impious to the face of God , but were the most unwise and unprudential act ...
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... rule by the one father but rule by " families and tribes , " implying a network of relationships in- dicative of a sort of fraternal rule - the " charities / Of father , son and brother , " men in reciprocal union , enjoying rights ...
... rule by the one father but rule by " families and tribes , " implying a network of relationships in- dicative of a sort of fraternal rule - the " charities / Of father , son and brother , " men in reciprocal union , enjoying rights ...
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... rule in favor of elective rule on a meritocratic basis . Out of birthright in its ordinary sense are extracted rights based on goodness . Here also the anointing of the king is stressed , in close relation to the anointing of humanity ...
... rule in favor of elective rule on a meritocratic basis . Out of birthright in its ordinary sense are extracted rights based on goodness . Here also the anointing of the king is stressed , in close relation to the anointing of humanity ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's allusion anointing army barbarian barbarous Beelzebub Book Caesar Chaos chariot Christ Christian Christopher Hill civil coronation Cromwell Death Defence divine earth earthly Eikon Basiliké Eikonoklastes emblem emperor emphasized empire English epic epic similes Eve's evil fall fallen angels father feudal glory God's gold Heaven heavenly Hell human king ibid imagined imperial implied John Milton justice king's kingship liberty Lord majesty Milton's God Milton's poem mind Moloch monarchy moral nature Nimrod Paradise Lost pattern Persians Pharaoh poet poet's poetic poetry political present prose Psalm Puritan Raphael reader rebel rebellion regicide reign relationship Renaissance ritual Roman royal Royalist rule Satan scourge sense simile Solomon speech spirit structure Stuart subjects sultan symbolism thee thir thou throne tion triumph triumphal Turkish Turkish crescent Turks tyranny tyrant University victory Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos virtue vision Yale