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... Hill's book . I had considered the possibility of integrating a critical assessment of Hill's Milton into the main body of my own book . But , on consideration , it seemed to me that Dr Hill's approach is deserving of a more detailed ...
... Hill's book . I had considered the possibility of integrating a critical assessment of Hill's Milton into the main body of my own book . But , on consideration , it seemed to me that Dr Hill's approach is deserving of a more detailed ...
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... Hill's version , by comparison with the Trevor - Roper account , is surprisingly depoliticised . The conflict between court and country as it appears in Hill's Milton is neither ' economic ' nor even especially ' political ' in its ...
... Hill's version , by comparison with the Trevor - Roper account , is surprisingly depoliticised . The conflict between court and country as it appears in Hill's Milton is neither ' economic ' nor even especially ' political ' in its ...
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... Hill himself is familiar with those debates , then he determinedly conceals that fact from his reader . That characteristically ' English ' contempt for theory , which Hill's work has often exhibited in the past , surfaces once again in ...
... Hill himself is familiar with those debates , then he determinedly conceals that fact from his reader . That characteristically ' English ' contempt for theory , which Hill's work has often exhibited in the past , surfaces once again in ...
Contents
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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