The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the author by J. Mitford, Volume 41851 |
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... marry to satisfie the fleshly ap- petite , like brute beafts that have no understanding ; but the Canon fo runs , as if it dreamt of no other mat- ter then fuch an appetite to be fatisfy'd ; for if it happen that nature hath ftopt or ...
... marry to satisfie the fleshly ap- petite , like brute beafts that have no understanding ; but the Canon fo runs , as if it dreamt of no other mat- ter then fuch an appetite to be fatisfy'd ; for if it happen that nature hath ftopt or ...
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... marry then to burn . Mariage therefore was giv'n as a remedy of that trouble : but what might this burning meane ? Certainly not the meere motion of carnall luft , not the meer goad of a sensitive defire ; God does not principally take ...
... marry then to burn . Mariage therefore was giv'n as a remedy of that trouble : but what might this burning meane ? Certainly not the meere motion of carnall luft , not the meer goad of a sensitive defire ; God does not principally take ...
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... Certainly fuch a one forbidd'n to divorce , is in effect forbidd'n to marry , and com- pell'd to greater difficulties then in a single life ; for if there be not a more humane burning which ma- Ch . 4 . Difcipline of Divorce . 29.
... Certainly fuch a one forbidd'n to divorce , is in effect forbidd'n to marry , and com- pell'd to greater difficulties then in a single life ; for if there be not a more humane burning which ma- Ch . 4 . Difcipline of Divorce . 29.
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... marry ; for , as was plainly shewn , both the hate which now diverts him and the lonelineffe which leads him ftill powerfully to feeke a fit helpe , hath not the least grain of a fin in it , if he be worthy to understand himselfe . CHAP ...
... marry ; for , as was plainly shewn , both the hate which now diverts him and the lonelineffe which leads him ftill powerfully to feeke a fit helpe , hath not the least grain of a fin in it , if he be worthy to understand himselfe . CHAP ...
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... marry . CHAP . VIII . That an idolatrous Heretick ought to be divorc't after a convenient Space giv'n to hope of converfion . That place of Corinth . 7. reflor'd from a twofold erroneous expofition , and that the common expofiters ...
... marry . CHAP . VIII . That an idolatrous Heretick ought to be divorc't after a convenient Space giv'n to hope of converfion . That place of Corinth . 7. reflor'd from a twofold erroneous expofition , and that the common expofiters ...
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Page 77 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 402 - 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.
Page 390 - ... the purest efficacy 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.
Page 375 - 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...
Page 379 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 401 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Page 432 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 401 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 390 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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.
Page 13 - 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.