A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... person sent hither by some good providence from a far country , to be the occasion and incitement of great good to this island . And , as I hear , you have obtained the same repute with men of most approved wisdom , and some of the ...
... person sent hither by some good providence from a far country , to be the occasion and incitement of great good to this island . And , as I hear , you have obtained the same repute with men of most approved wisdom , and some of the ...
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... person of great name in the church , for piety and learning , who had wont to avail himself much against heretics , by being conversant in their books , until a certain presbyter laid it scrupulously to his conscience , how he durst ...
... person of great name in the church , for piety and learning , who had wont to avail himself much against heretics , by being conversant in their books , until a certain presbyter laid it scrupulously to his conscience , how he durst ...
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... person of Guion , brings him in with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon , and the bower of earthly bliss , that he might see and know , and yet abstain . Since therefore the knowledge and of vice is in this world so necessary to the ...
... person of Guion , brings him in with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon , and the bower of earthly bliss , that he might see and know , and yet abstain . Since therefore the knowledge and of vice is in this world so necessary to the ...
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... person , more than the restraint of ten vicious . And albeit , whatever thing we hear or see , sitting , walking , travelling , or conversing , may be fitly called our book , and is of the same effect that writings are , yet grant the ...
... person , more than the restraint of ten vicious . And albeit , whatever thing we hear or see , sitting , walking , travelling , or conversing , may be fitly called our book , and is of the same effect that writings are , yet grant the ...
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... person alive , and most injurious to the written labors and monuments of the dead , so to me it seems an un- dervaluing and vilifying of the whole nation . I cannot set so light by all the invention , the art , the wit , the grave and ...
... person alive , and most injurious to the written labors and monuments of the dead , so to me it seems an un- dervaluing and vilifying of the whole nation . I cannot set so light by all the invention , the art , the wit , the grave and ...
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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.