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Yet sometimes nations will decline so low From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong But justice, and some fatal course annexed, Deprives them of their outward liberty, Their inward lost.
Yet sometimes nations will decline so low From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong But justice, and some fatal course annexed, Deprives them of their outward liberty, Their inward lost.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 642 · printed citation: Milton · subject: VIRTUE
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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