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but what power of mind

Hume, Patrick. Annotations on Milton's Paradise Lost London: Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695. Print.

But what Force of Strength of Understanding, from greatest Knowledge of Things past or present, by Foresight or Foretelling, could have apprehended, how such a Multitude of Godlike Spirits, so united thus, and thus embattelled, should e'er have undergone and Overthrow?
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