Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ElucidationsHurst and Blackett, 1870 - 338 pages |
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... least valued liberty of all . These eight Treatises he wrote without fee or reward , presenting gratuitous- ly these fruits of his private studies to the Church and to the State . And lastly , in the cause of civil liberty , at the ...
... least valued liberty of all . These eight Treatises he wrote without fee or reward , presenting gratuitous- ly these fruits of his private studies to the Church and to the State . And lastly , in the cause of civil liberty , at the ...
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... least wry face of a politician hushed them . But it will be said these men ( Cranmer , Rid- ley , and Latimer ) were martyrs : what then ? Though every true Christian will be a martyr when he is called to it , not presently does it ...
... least wry face of a politician hushed them . But it will be said these men ( Cranmer , Rid- ley , and Latimer ) were martyrs : what then ? Though every true Christian will be a martyr when he is called to it , not presently does it ...
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... least ground of evidence , either external or internal , for believing it to be a work of Chaucer's . ' It has not the least resemblance to Chaucer's manner either of writing or thinking , in his other works . It is not at all probable ...
... least ground of evidence , either external or internal , for believing it to be a work of Chaucer's . ' It has not the least resemblance to Chaucer's manner either of writing or thinking , in his other works . It is not at all probable ...
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... least of seven set apart wherein to examine and increase our know- ledge of God , to meditate and commune of our faith , our hope , our eternal city in heaven , and to quicken withal the study and exercise of charity ; at such a time ...
... least of seven set apart wherein to examine and increase our know- ledge of God , to meditate and commune of our faith , our hope , our eternal city in heaven , and to quicken withal the study and exercise of charity ; at such a time ...
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... least deserved , sent out a gentle gale and message of peace from the wings of those His cherubims that fan His mercy- seat . " Go on both hand in hand , O nations , never to be disunited ; be the praise and the heroic song of all ...
... least deserved , sent out a gentle gale and message of peace from the wings of those His cherubims that fan His mercy- seat . " Go on both hand in hand , O nations , never to be disunited ; be the praise and the heroic song of all ...
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Page 153 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 179 - 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 164 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Page 20 - Purification in the 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...
Page 286 - Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint.
Page 163 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them.
Page 85 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge...
Page 180 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Page 205 - What does he, therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs ; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, with all the locks and keys, into his custody ; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion ; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
Page 164 - 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.