The Prose Works of John Milton, vol. 2
Vol. 2 of a mid-19th century 2 volume of Milton’s most significant prose works. Vol. 2 contains The Ready and Easy way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, The History of Britain, Of True Religion, and other works.
The Prose Works of John Milton, With a Biographical Introduction by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. In Two Volumes (Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 1847). Vol. 2.
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
- A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, IN ANSWER TO SALMASIUS’S DEFENCE OF THE KING.*
- THE PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER IN ECCLESIASTICAL CAUSES; SHOWING THAT IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR ANY POWER ON EARTH TO COMPEL IN MATTERS OF RELIGION.
- A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER IN ECCLESIASTICAL CAUSES.
- CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE LIKELIEST MEANS TO REMOVE HIRELINGS OUT OF THE CHURCH. WHEREIN IS ALSO DISCOURSED OF TITHES, CHURCH-FEES, AND CHURCH-REVENUES; AND WHETHER ANY MAINTENANCE OF MINISTERS CAN BE SETTLED BY LAW.
- CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE LIKELIEST MEANS TO REMOVE HIRELINGS OUT OF THE CHURCH.
- A LETTER TO A FRIEND CONCERNING THE RUPTURES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
- THE PRESENT MEANS AND BRIEF DELINEATION OF A FREE COMMONWEALTH, EASY TO BE PUT IN PRACTICE, AND WITHOUT DELAY.
- THE READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COMMONWEALTH, AND THE EXCELLENCE THEREOF, COMPARED WITH THE INCONVENIENCIES AND DANGERS OF READMITTING KINGSHIP IN THIS NATION.
- BRIEF NOTES UPON A LATE SERMON, TITLED, THE FEAR OF GOD AND THE KING.
- THE TEXT.
- THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN, THAT PART ESPECIALLY NOW CALLED ENGLAND, FROM THE FIRST TRADITIONAL BEGINNING, CONTINUED TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST:—COLLECTED OUT OF THE ANCIENTEST AND BEST AUTHORS THEREOF.
- THE FIRST BOOK.
- THE SECOND BOOK.
- THE THIRD BOOK.
- THE FOURTH BOOK.
- THE FIFTH BOOK.
- ECBERT.
- ETHELWOLF.
- ETHELBALD AND ETHELBERT.
- ETHELBERT ALONE.
- ETHELRED.
- ALFRED.
- EDWARD THE ELDER.
- ATHELSTAN.
- EDMUND.
- EDRED.
- EDWI.
- EDGAR.
- THE SIXTH BOOK.
- EDWARD THE YOUNGER.
- ETHELRED.
- EDMUND IRONSIDE.
- CANUTE, OR KNUTE.
- HAROLD.
- HARDECNUTE.
- EDWARD THE CONFESSOR.
- HAROLD, son of Earl Godwin.
- OF TRUE RELIGION, HERESY, SCHISM, TOLERATION; AND WHAT BEST MEANS MAY BE USED AGAINST THE GROWTH OF POPERY.
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOSCOVIA, AND OF OTHER LESS KNOWN COUNTRIES LYING EASTWARD OF RUSSIA AS FAR AS CATHAY.
- THE PREFACE.
- MOSCOVIA: OR, RELATIONS OF MOSCOVIA, AS FAR AS HATH BEEN DISCOVERED BY ENGLISH VOYAGES; GATHERED FROM THE WRITINGS OF SEVERAL EYE-WITNESSES: AND THE OTHER LESS KNOWN COUNTRIES LYING EASTWARD OF RUSSIA AS FAR AS CATHAY, LATELY DISCOVERED AT SEVERAL TIMES BY THE RUSSIANS.
- CHAPTER I.: A brief description.
- CHAPTER II.: Of Samoëdia, Siberia, and other countries north-east, subject to the Muscovites.
- CHAPTER III.: Of Tingoësia, and the countries adjoining eastward, as far as Cathay.
- CHAPTER IV.: The succession of Moscovia dukes and emperors, taken out of their chroniles by a Polac, with some later additions.†
- CHAPTER V.: The first discovery of Russia by the north-east, 1553, with the English embassies, and entertainments at that court, until the year 1604.
- A DECLARATION OF LETTERS PATENTS, FOR THE ELECTION OF THIS PRESENT KING OF POLAND, JOHN THE THIRD, ELECTED ON THE 22d OF MAY LAST PAST, A. D. 1674.
- LETTERS OF STATE TO MOST OF THE SOVEREIGN PRINCES AND REPUBLICS OF EUROPE, DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE PROTECTORS OLIVER AND RICHARD CROMWELL.
- LETTERS WRITTEN IN THE NAME OF THE PARLIAMENT.
- LETTERS WRITTEN IN THE NAME OF OLIVER THE PROTECTOR.
- LETTERS WRITTEN IN THE NAME OF RICHARD, PROTECTOR.
- A MANIFESTO OF THE LORD PROTECTOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, c.
- THE SECOND DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, AGAINST AN ANONYMOUS LIBEL ENTITLED “THE ROYAL BLOOD CRYING TO HEAVEN FOR VENGEANCE ON THE ENGLISH PARRICIDES.”
- The Royal Blood crying to heaven for vengeance on the English parricides.
- FAMILIAR EPISTLES, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, BY ROBERT FELLOWES, A. M. OXON.
- I.: To his Tutor Thomas Jure.
- II.: To Alexander Gill.
- III.: To the Same.
- IV.: To Thomas Jure.
- V.: To Alexander Gill.
- VI.: To Carolo Deodati.
- VII.: To the Same.
- VIII.: To Beneditto Bonomattai, a Florentine.
- IX.: To Luke Holstein, in the Vatican at Rome.
- X.: To Carolo Deodati, a Florentine Noble.
- XI.: To Hermann Milles, Secretary to the Count of Oldenburgh.
- XII.: To the renowned Leonard Philara, the Athenian.
- XIII.: To Richard Heth.
- XIV.: To Henry Oldenburgh, Aulic Counsellor to the Senate of Bremen.
- XV.: To Leonard Philara, the Athenian.
- XVI.: To Leo of Aizema.
- XVII.: To Ezechiel Spanheim, of Geneva.
- XVIII.: To Henry Oldenburgh, Aulic Counsellor to the Senate of Bremen.
- XIX.: To the noble Youth, Richard Jones.
- XX.: To the accomplished Youth Peter Heinbach.
- XXI.: To the accomplished Emeric Bigot.
- XXII.: To the noble Youth Richard Jones.
- XXIII.: To the illustrious Lord Henry de Bras.
- XXIV.: To Henry Oldenburgh.
- XXV.: To the noble Youth Richard Jones.
- XXVI.: To the illustrious Lord Henry de Bras.
- XXVII.: To the accomplished Peter Heinbach.
- XXVIII.: To John Badiaus, Minister of the Church of Orange.
- XXIX.: To Henry Oldenburgh.
- XXX.: To the noble Youth Richard Jones.
- XXXI.: To the accomplished Peter Heinbach, Counsellor to the Elector of Brandenburg.
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