A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... commonwealth , be such poor , shaken , uncertain reeds , of such a tottering conscience , as many of our great counsellors have lately shown themselves , but steadfast pillars of the state . After this , they are to dive into the ...
... commonwealth , be such poor , shaken , uncertain reeds , of such a tottering conscience , as many of our great counsellors have lately shown themselves , but steadfast pillars of the state . After this , they are to dive into the ...
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... commonwealth of Sparta ; whereas that city trained up their youth most for war , and these in their academies and Lycæum , all for the gown , this institu- tion of breeding , which I here delineate , shall be equally good both for peace ...
... commonwealth of Sparta ; whereas that city trained up their youth most for war , and these in their academies and Lycæum , all for the gown , this institu- tion of breeding , which I here delineate , shall be equally good both for peace ...
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... common- wealth direct their speech , high court of parliament ! or wanting such access in a private condition , write that which they foresee may advance the public good , I suppose them , as at the beginning of no mean en- deavour ...
... common- wealth direct their speech , high court of parliament ! or wanting such access in a private condition , write that which they foresee may advance the public good , I suppose them , as at the beginning of no mean en- deavour ...
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... commonwealth , if one of your published orders which I should name , were called in , yet at the same time it could not but much redound to the lustre of your mild and equal government , whenas private persons are hereby ani- mated to ...
... commonwealth , if one of your published orders which I should name , were called in , yet at the same time it could not but much redound to the lustre of your mild and equal government , whenas private persons are hereby ani- mated to ...
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... commonwealth , to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine , imprison , and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors . For books are not absolutely dead things , but do contain a ...
... commonwealth , to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine , imprison , and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors . For books are not absolutely dead things , but do contain a ...
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Page 34 - 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.
Page 69 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 315 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 3 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 289 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page vi - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Page 303 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Page 171 - It being thus manifest that the power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative, transferred, and committed to them in trust from the People to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright...
Page 266 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.