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Page 48
... law supplant his prince ; The people's brave , the politician's tool ; Never was patriot yet , but was a fool . Whence comes it that religion and the laws Should more be Absalom's than David's cause ? His old instructor , ere he lost ...
... law supplant his prince ; The people's brave , the politician's tool ; Never was patriot yet , but was a fool . Whence comes it that religion and the laws Should more be Absalom's than David's cause ? His old instructor , ere he lost ...
Page 235
... laws . Then for the style ; majestic and divine , It speaks no less than God in every line : Commanding words ; whose force is still the same As the first fiat that produc'd our frame . All faiths beside or did by arms ascend , Or sense ...
... laws . Then for the style ; majestic and divine , It speaks no less than God in every line : Commanding words ; whose force is still the same As the first fiat that produc'd our frame . All faiths beside or did by arms ascend , Or sense ...
Page 236
John Dryden. Transcending nature , but to laws divine ? Which in that sacred volume are contain'd ; Sufficient ... law is that alone Which must to all , and everywhere , be known : A style so large as not this book can claim , Nor aught ...
John Dryden. Transcending nature , but to laws divine ? Which in that sacred volume are contain'd ; Sufficient ... law is that alone Which must to all , and everywhere , be known : A style so large as not this book can claim , Nor aught ...
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