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He has no dread of overgrown bulk and overwhelming copiousness. He finds, indeed, what we have called the exhaustive method insufficient. He not only wishes to narrate in full the life of Milton, but to add those of his contemporaries likewise : he seems to wish to tell us not only what Milton did, but also what every one else did in Great Britain during his lifetime. He intends his book to be not " merely a biography of Milton, but also in some sort a continuous history of his time. . . . The ...suggestions of Milton's life have indeed determined the tracks of these historical researches and expositions, some- times through the literature of the period, sometimes through its civil and ecclesiastical politics ; but the extent to which I have pursued them, and the space which I have John Milton. 17! assigned to them, have been determined by my desire to present, by their combination, something Hke a connected historical view of British thought and British society in general prior to the Revolution.
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