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Page 107
... less should yield to the greater , not in numbers , but in wisdom and virtue'.52 The legitimacy of the revolutionary government thus comes to rest , not on the consent of the propertied , still less on the consent of the masses , but ...
... less should yield to the greater , not in numbers , but in wisdom and virtue'.52 The legitimacy of the revolutionary government thus comes to rest , not on the consent of the propertied , still less on the consent of the masses , but ...
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... less organic , more or less constructed , and the precise location of a particular epic on that epic continuum is dependent upon the nature of the surrounding social formation . The integrated civilisations of classical Greece permit ...
... less organic , more or less constructed , and the precise location of a particular epic on that epic continuum is dependent upon the nature of the surrounding social formation . The integrated civilisations of classical Greece permit ...
Page 209
... less to political manipulation and institutional change . This would seem to give him a certain modern relevance.'45 It is a conclusion which might possibly have won Milton readers amongst the ' student left ' of the late 1960s . But ...
... less to political manipulation and institutional change . This would seem to give him a certain modern relevance.'45 It is a conclusion which might possibly have won Milton readers amongst the ' student left ' of the late 1960s . But ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Copyright | |
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