The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1John W. Moore [Printed by King & Baird], 1847 |
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... less danger to myself , render assistance to my countrymen , and discover a mind neither shrinking from adverse fortune , nor actuated by any improper fear of calumny or death . Since from my childhood I had been devoted to the more ...
... less danger to myself , render assistance to my countrymen , and discover a mind neither shrinking from adverse fortune , nor actuated by any improper fear of calumny or death . Since from my childhood I had been devoted to the more ...
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... less a mind , nor of less excellence in another way , were they who by writing laid the solid and true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more ...
... less a mind , nor of less excellence in another way , were they who by writing laid the solid and true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more ...
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... less offender , publicly the scandalous and stubborn ; to censure and sepa- rate , from the communion of Christ's flock , the contagious and incorrigible , to receive with joy and fatherly compassion the penitent : all this must be done ...
... less offender , publicly the scandalous and stubborn ; to censure and sepa- rate , from the communion of Christ's flock , the contagious and incorrigible , to receive with joy and fatherly compassion the penitent : all this must be done ...
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... less toil and difficulty , and far more ease and delight , steer the tall and goodly vessel of the commonwealth through all the gusts and tides of the world's mutability . Here I might have ended , but that some objections , which I ...
... less toil and difficulty , and far more ease and delight , steer the tall and goodly vessel of the commonwealth through all the gusts and tides of the world's mutability . Here I might have ended , but that some objections , which I ...
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... less piously than the heathen were wont to conclude their graver discourses . Thou , therefore , that sittest in light and glory unapproachable , Parent of angels and men ! next , thee I implore , omnipotent King , Redeemer of that lost ...
... less piously than the heathen were wont to conclude their graver discourses . Thou , therefore , that sittest in light and glory unapproachable , Parent of angels and men ! next , thee I implore , omnipotent King , Redeemer of that lost ...
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Page 174 - 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 201 - 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.
Page 56 - 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 188 - 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 mid-day beam...
Page 341 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 186 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 70 - The Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. Ami the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies: and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 322 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Page 320 - 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 viii - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.