The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Volume 40 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES. 3. 1. If men, etc. In this opening paragraph Milton has in mind all opponents of the Cromwellian party, and especially the Scotch and English Presbyterians. 3. 6. But being slaves within doores. Living under a domestic tyranny. Alfred Stern (Milton und seine Zeit 1. 438) says that these words will recall to every reader the conflict between Milton and the Presbyterians over his theory of divorce. 3. 9. None can love freedom heartilie, but good men. Milton based both political and artistic excellence on character. Cf. Apol. Smect. (Bohn 3. 118). 3. 13. Tyrants are not oft offended, etc. Cf. Aristotle, Politics, 5.11.12: 'Tyrants are always fond of bad men, because they love to be nattered, but no man who has the spirit of a free man in him will demean himself by flattery,' 3.15. Them they feare in earnest. Milton probably owes this thought to George Buchanan. Cf. De Jure Regni apud Scotos. Trans. R. Macfarlan, p. 199: 'But why should we look for a surer witness of what tyrants deserve than their own conscience? Hence springs their perpetual fear of all, and particularly of good men.' See also Raleigh, The CabinetCouncil (Works, ed. Birch 1. 96): They [tyrants] are also Protectors of impious Persons, and stand in daily doubt of noble and virtuous Men. 3. 24. Others. Cromwell and his supporters. 3. 26. The curse. See Jer. 48. 1. 4.2. These men. The Presbyterians. 4.4. Juggl'd and palter'd with the World. A picturesque phrase insinuating that the Presbyterians, especially their ministers, had played the part of patriots because it was to their material advantage to do so. Cf. Shak. Macbeth 5.8.20: Those juggling fiends That palter with us in a double sense, 4. 4. Bandied. The origin of this word is obscure, but it is probably derived...
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About the Author:
John Milton was a seventeenth-century English poet, polemicist, and civil servant in the government of Oliver Cromwell. Among Milton s best-known works are the classic epic Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, considered one of the greatest accomplishments in English blank verse, and Samson Agonistes.
Writing during a period of tremendous religious and political change, Milton s theology and politics were considered radical under King Charles I, found acceptance during the Commonwealth period, and were again out of fashion after the Restoration, when his literary reputation became a subject for debate due to his unrepentant republicanism. T.S. Eliot remarked that Milton s poetry was the hardest to reflect upon without one s own political and theological beliefs intruding.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230218513
- ISBN 13 9781230218519
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages76
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