A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... vainly feared will grow hereby . What to those who never have done prescribing Patience in this Case . The Papist most severe against Divorce , yet most easy · to all License . Of all the Miseries in Marriage CONTENTS .
... vainly feared will grow hereby . What to those who never have done prescribing Patience in this Case . The Papist most severe against Divorce , yet most easy · to all License . Of all the Miseries in Marriage CONTENTS .
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... never taught them , but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms , fat conten- tions , and flowing fees . Others betake them to state affairs , with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding , that ...
... never taught them , but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms , fat conten- tions , and flowing fees . Others betake them to state affairs , with souls so unprincipled in virtue and true generous breeding , that ...
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... never forget , but daily augment with delight . Then also those poets which are now count- ed most hard , will be both facile , and pleasant , Or- pheus , Hesiod , Theocritus , Aratus , Nicander , Oppian , Dionysius , and in Latin ...
... never forget , but daily augment with delight . Then also those poets which are now count- ed most hard , will be both facile , and pleasant , Or- pheus , Hesiod , Theocritus , Aratus , Nicander , Oppian , Dionysius , and in Latin ...
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... never so oft supplied ; they would not suffer their empty and unrecruitable colonels of twenty men in a company , to quaff out , or convey into secret hoards , the wages of a delusive list and a miserable remnant , yet , in the mean ...
... never so oft supplied ; they would not suffer their empty and unrecruitable colonels of twenty men in a company , to quaff out , or convey into secret hoards , the wages of a delusive list and a miserable remnant , yet , in the mean ...
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... a jury ere it be born to the world , and undergo yet in darkness the judgment of Rhadamanth and his colleagues , ere it can pass the ferry backward into light , was never heard before , till that 28 A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY.
... a jury ere it be born to the world , and undergo yet in darkness the judgment of Rhadamanth and his colleagues , ere it can pass the ferry backward into light , was never heard before , till that 28 A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY.
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Page 34 - 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 69 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 315 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 3 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 289 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page vi - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Page 303 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Page 171 - It being thus manifest that the power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative, transferred, and committed to them in trust from the People to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright...
Page 266 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.