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“Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Milton. 1825.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e7f2a8bd4c4b45565fb15ba1e39bfd103a8f5cc0feff494bb8e6dc78ac1faadf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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