The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 - Poets, English |
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... father , who with a daughter , the delight and , alas ! perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of exist- ence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candour now ...
... father , who with a daughter , the delight and , alas ! perhaps too much , the pride of his heart , has lost the great endearment of exist- ence ; the exhilaration of his cheerful and the solace of his melancholy hour . Candour now ...
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... father highly celebrated for his erudition and his piety ; and because all good men think you good ; and laftly , because you hate the bad . hate the bad . With fuch perfons fince it has also been my lot to be at war , Calandrinus very ...
... father highly celebrated for his erudition and his piety ; and because all good men think you good ; and laftly , because you hate the bad . hate the bad . With fuch perfons fince it has also been my lot to be at war , Calandrinus very ...
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... fathers , martyrs , or chriftian emperors , or have otherwise inveighed against erróur and fuperftition with vehement expreffions ; I have done it neither out of malice , nor lift to speak evil , nor any vain glory , but of mere ...
... fathers , martyrs , or chriftian emperors , or have otherwise inveighed against erróur and fuperftition with vehement expreffions ; I have done it neither out of malice , nor lift to speak evil , nor any vain glory , but of mere ...
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... fathers , Ignatius , writing to the Philadelphians , faith , " that it belongs to them as to the church of God " to choose a bishop . " Let no man cavil , but take the church of God as meaning the whole confiftence of orders and members ...
... fathers , Ignatius , writing to the Philadelphians , faith , " that it belongs to them as to the church of God " to choose a bishop . " Let no man cavil , but take the church of God as meaning the whole confiftence of orders and members ...
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... fathers , if you should wake and fee unworthy Bishops , or rather no bishops , but Egyptian taskmasters of ceremo- nies thruft purposely upon the groaning church , to the affliction and vexation of God's people ? It was not of old that ...
... fathers , if you should wake and fee unworthy Bishops , or rather no bishops , but Egyptian taskmasters of ceremo- nies thruft purposely upon the groaning church , to the affliction and vexation of God's people ? It was not of old that ...
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Page 267 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 115 - 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 312 - 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 287 - 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 107 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 313 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 113 - God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Page 300 - Nor is it to the common people less than a reproach; for if we be so jealous over them, as that we dare not trust them with an English pamphlet, what do we but censure them for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser?
Page 334 - 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 311 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...