The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volumen1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... ftand to their arbitrement , fhall now appear by a threefold corruption which will be found upon them . 1. The best times were spreadingly infected . 2. The beft men of those times foully tainted . 3. The beft writings of those men ...
... ftand to their arbitrement , fhall now appear by a threefold corruption which will be found upon them . 1. The best times were spreadingly infected . 2. The beft men of those times foully tainted . 3. The beft writings of those men ...
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... ftand much in Cæfar's light , nor much endamage the Roman empire ; for if the life of Chrift be hid to this world , much more is his fceptre unoperative , but in fpi- ritual things . And thus lived , for two or three ages , the ...
... ftand much in Cæfar's light , nor much endamage the Roman empire ; for if the life of Chrift be hid to this world , much more is his fceptre unoperative , but in fpi- ritual things . And thus lived , for two or three ages , the ...
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... ftand reckoning upon advantages and gains loft by the mifrule and turbulency of the prelates ? What do I pick up fo thriftily their fcatterings and di- minifhings of the meaner fubject , whilft they by their feditious practices have ...
... ftand reckoning upon advantages and gains loft by the mifrule and turbulency of the prelates ? What do I pick up fo thriftily their fcatterings and di- minifhings of the meaner fubject , whilft they by their feditious practices have ...
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... ftand with the common law nor with the king's fafety , the government of epifcopacy is now fo weaved into the common law . In God's name let it weave out again ; let not human . quillets keep back divine authority . It is not the com ...
... ftand with the common law nor with the king's fafety , the government of epifcopacy is now fo weaved into the common law . In God's name let it weave out again ; let not human . quillets keep back divine authority . It is not the com ...
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... ftand with the king's fafety . Wherefore ? it is but epifcopacy reduced to what it fhould be : were it not that the tyranny of pre- lates under the name of bithops had made our ears ten- der , and ftartling we might call every good ...
... ftand with the king's fafety . Wherefore ? it is but epifcopacy reduced to what it fhould be : were it not that the tyranny of pre- lates under the name of bithops had made our ears ten- der , and ftartling we might call every good ...
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Página 300 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Página 278 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience; inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Página 277 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 290 - ... and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 325 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 290 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 123 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 348 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Página 290 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Página 119 - I applied myself to that resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue...