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... truths are immutable , the applications of them vary with the change of time . But when a writer who looks to the highest aims of life and is concerned only with its highest interests has resolved to set forth opinions to the world ...
... truths are immutable , the applications of them vary with the change of time . But when a writer who looks to the highest aims of life and is concerned only with its highest interests has resolved to set forth opinions to the world ...
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... truth in the first instance , and with other men that is a fre- quent cause of great misunderstanding . It is not easy to know the truth even about a living man whose life is involved in con- troversies that excite strong feeling ...
... truth in the first instance , and with other men that is a fre- quent cause of great misunderstanding . It is not easy to know the truth even about a living man whose life is involved in con- troversies that excite strong feeling ...
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... truth . There may be some man with a mind wholly unbiassed , and , as the shot would stay wherever it is placed upon a level sheet of paper , so on his mind a thought might move in no direc- tion . If there be men subject to this ...
... truth . There may be some man with a mind wholly unbiassed , and , as the shot would stay wherever it is placed upon a level sheet of paper , so on his mind a thought might move in no direc- tion . If there be men subject to this ...
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... is intolerant only of intolerance . Milton aimed at highest truth and highest purity through the conditions in Church and State by which he thought there would be nearest approach to these among the people . He INTRODUCTION . 25.
... is intolerant only of intolerance . Milton aimed at highest truth and highest purity through the conditions in Church and State by which he thought there would be nearest approach to these among the people . He INTRODUCTION . 25.
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... truth and highest purity , the aim of both . Instead of claiming for each man a right to form his own opinions from the reading of the Bible , Laud limited the right to points on which the Church had left opinion free . He saw in a ...
... truth and highest purity , the aim of both . Instead of claiming for each man a right to form his own opinions from the reading of the Bible , Laud limited the right to points on which the Church had left opinion free . He saw in a ...
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Page 314 - 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 ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 414 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 323 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 314 - ... 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. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 300 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 338 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Page 271 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 324 - 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 307 - 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.
Page 118 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.