A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... Parliament of England The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce , restored to the Good of both Sexes , from the Bondage of Canon Law , and other Mistakes , to the true Meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compared , & c . In two ...
... Parliament of England The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce , restored to the Good of both Sexes , from the Bondage of Canon Law , and other Mistakes , to the true Meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compared , & c . In two ...
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... Parliament II . Upon the Earl of Strafford's Death VI Upon his Retirement from Westminster X. Upon their Seizing the Magazines , Forts , & c . XII . Upon the Rebellion in Ireland 147 154 . 177 • · 188 197 • 203 212 214 XIII . Upon the ...
... Parliament II . Upon the Earl of Strafford's Death VI Upon his Retirement from Westminster X. Upon their Seizing the Magazines , Forts , & c . XII . Upon the Rebellion in Ireland 147 154 . 177 • · 188 197 • 203 212 214 XIII . Upon the ...
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... in every excellent matter , when they shall be thus fraught with an universal insight into things . Or whether they be to speak in parliament or council , honor and attention would be waiting on their lips . OF EDUCATION . 11.
... in every excellent matter , when they shall be thus fraught with an universal insight into things . Or whether they be to speak in parliament or council , honor and attention would be waiting on their lips . OF EDUCATION . 11.
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... PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND . Τοὐλεύθερον δ ̓ ἐκεῖνο , εἴ τις θέλει πόλει Χρηστόν τι βούλευμ ̓ εἰς μέσον φέρειν , ἔχων . Καὶ ταῦθ ̓ ὁ χρήζων , λαμπρὸς ἔσθ ' , ὁ μὴ θέλων , Σιγῷ · τί τούτων ἐστιν ἰσαίτερον πόλει ; Euripid . Hicetid . This is ...
... PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND . Τοὐλεύθερον δ ̓ ἐκεῖνο , εἴ τις θέλει πόλει Χρηστόν τι βούλευμ ̓ εἰς μέσον φέρειν , ἔχων . Καὶ ταῦθ ̓ ὁ χρήζων , λαμπρὸς ἔσθ ' , ὁ μὴ θέλων , Σιγῷ · τί τούτων ἐστιν ἰσαίτερον πόλει ; Euripid . Hicetid . This is ...
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... parliament , and that jealous haughtiness of prelates and cabin counsellors that usurped of late , whenas they shall observe ye in the midst of your victories and successes more gently brooking written excep- tions against a voted order ...
... parliament , and that jealous haughtiness of prelates and cabin counsellors that usurped of late , whenas they shall observe ye in the midst of your victories and successes more gently brooking written excep- tions against a voted order ...
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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.