John Milton: His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an Appendix, Containing Animadversions Upon Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton, Etc., Etc |
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... force of such testimonies as are alleged to that purpose . Now , Usher's chief talents lying in much reading , and being a great editor , and admirer of old writings , MILTON shows the insufficiency , inconveniency , and impiety of this ...
... force of such testimonies as are alleged to that purpose . Now , Usher's chief talents lying in much reading , and being a great editor , and admirer of old writings , MILTON shows the insufficiency , inconveniency , and impiety of this ...
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... force and vigor against all Anabaptists , Brownists , Separatists , Familists , or other sect or sects , person and persons , whatso- ever , who do , or shall either obstinately refuse , or ordinarily , not having a lawful impediment ...
... force and vigor against all Anabaptists , Brownists , Separatists , Familists , or other sect or sects , person and persons , whatso- ever , who do , or shall either obstinately refuse , or ordinarily , not having a lawful impediment ...
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... force and violence ; that they abhorred all opinions tending to the ad- vancement of popery ; that , as they had been in- sulted , and their lives endangered by the fury of the populace , they could no longer repair to the House of ...
... force and violence ; that they abhorred all opinions tending to the ad- vancement of popery ; that , as they had been in- sulted , and their lives endangered by the fury of the populace , they could no longer repair to the House of ...
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... force , in the case of an unsuitable disposition in a wife : " for in the account of God it comes all to one , that the wife looses him a servant , and therefore , by all the united force of the Decalogue , she ought to be disbanded ...
... force , in the case of an unsuitable disposition in a wife : " for in the account of God it comes all to one , that the wife looses him a servant , and therefore , by all the united force of the Decalogue , she ought to be disbanded ...
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... force should be used to keep them together ; while we re- member that God commanded Abraham to send away his irreligious wife and son , for the offences which they gave in a pious family and it may be guest that David for a like cause ...
... force should be used to keep them together ; while we re- member that God commanded Abraham to send away his irreligious wife and son , for the offences which they gave in a pious family and it may be guest that David for a like cause ...
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Page 84 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 283 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 283 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of...
Page 164 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 68 - 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 147 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 280 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden (till one greater Man Restore us and regain the blissful seat!), Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 334 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 284 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 286 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony...