The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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... council whether they should give him so much as the title of Cæsar . * Let all men judge what this wanted of de- posing or of killing , but the power to do it . In the year 1559 , the Scots protestants claiming promise of their queen ...
... council whether they should give him so much as the title of Cæsar . * Let all men judge what this wanted of de- posing or of killing , but the power to do it . In the year 1559 , the Scots protestants claiming promise of their queen ...
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... council do what they do without . precedent , if it appear their duty , it argues the more wisdom , virtue , and magnanimity , that they know themselves able to be a precedent to others ; who perhaps in future ages , if they prove not ...
... council do what they do without . precedent , if it appear their duty , it argues the more wisdom , virtue , and magnanimity , that they know themselves able to be a precedent to others ; who perhaps in future ages , if they prove not ...
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... councils and synods , and have got the major vote , they too easily believe that either their grandeur , reverence , names , or numbers , must give them the reputation of being orthodox , and in the right , and will war- rant them to ...
... councils and synods , and have got the major vote , they too easily believe that either their grandeur , reverence , names , or numbers , must give them the reputation of being orthodox , and in the right , and will war- rant them to ...
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... council of the nation , as was done by Cæsar in the debates on the Catilinarian conspiracy . - ED . This very ... councils ; and not till AREOPAGITICA 59.
... council of the nation , as was done by Cæsar in the debates on the Catilinarian conspiracy . - ED . This very ... councils ; and not till AREOPAGITICA 59.
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... council , wherein bishops themselves were forbid to read the books of Gentiles , but heresies they might read ; while others long before them , on the contrary , scrupled more the books of heretics , than of Gentiles . And that the ...
... council , wherein bishops themselves were forbid to read the books of Gentiles , but heresies they might read ; while others long before them , on the contrary , scrupled more the books of heretics , than of Gentiles . And that the ...
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Page 94 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
Page 481 - 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...
Page 358 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Page 89 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 116 - 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 457 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Page 82 - I had), and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than...
Page 55 - ... 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.
Page 55 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and 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.