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... means of rallying the country against the King . Much of the religious controversy of the century was political in origin . The opposition to the Court increasingly put on Puritan war- paint as a means of raising support in what was ...
... means of rallying the country against the King . Much of the religious controversy of the century was political in origin . The opposition to the Court increasingly put on Puritan war- paint as a means of raising support in what was ...
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... means , have married and endowed the public . While Bacon was not himself a good scientist , he popular- ised the case for a scientific method based on experiment , and argued for a divorce between theology and the study of nature . The ...
... means , have married and endowed the public . While Bacon was not himself a good scientist , he popular- ised the case for a scientific method based on experiment , and argued for a divorce between theology and the study of nature . The ...
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... mean physical chastity , although that is applicable to the children performing in the masque ; he means a purity of mind which , according to his reading in early Church Fathers and Renaissance Platonists , will free the soul from the ...
... mean physical chastity , although that is applicable to the children performing in the masque ; he means a purity of mind which , according to his reading in early Church Fathers and Renaissance Platonists , will free the soul from the ...
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