The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose WritingsHenry Holt, 1876 - 486 pages |
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... hope , fixed only upon the flesh , renders likewise the whole faculty of his apprehension carnal ; and all the inward acts of worship , issuing from the native strength of the soul , run out lavishly to the upper skin , and there harden ...
... hope , fixed only upon the flesh , renders likewise the whole faculty of his apprehension carnal ; and all the inward acts of worship , issuing from the native strength of the soul , run out lavishly to the upper skin , and there harden ...
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... hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand ? And what reformation he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider . He ap- pointed certain times for fasts and ...
... hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand ? And what reformation he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider . He ap- pointed certain times for fasts and ...
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... hope , our eternal city in heaven , and to quicken withal the study and exercise of charity ; at such a time that men should be plucked from their soberest and saddest thoughts , and by bishops , the pretended fathers of the Church ...
... hope , our eternal city in heaven , and to quicken withal the study and exercise of charity ; at such a time that men should be plucked from their soberest and saddest thoughts , and by bishops , the pretended fathers of the Church ...
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... hope for the cheerful dawn , never more hear the bird of morning sing ! Be moved with pity at the afflicted state of this our shaken monarchy , that now lies laboring under her throes and struggling against the grudges of more dreaded ...
... hope for the cheerful dawn , never more hear the bird of morning sing ! Be moved with pity at the afflicted state of this our shaken monarchy , that now lies laboring under her throes and struggling against the grudges of more dreaded ...
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... hope and defence , that thine enemies have been consulting all the sorceries of the great whore , and have joined their plots with that sad intelli- gencing tyrant that mischiefs the world with his mines of Ophir , and lies thirsting to ...
... hope and defence , that thine enemies have been consulting all the sorceries of the great whore , and have joined their plots with that sad intelli- gencing tyrant that mischiefs the world with his mines of Ophir , and lies thirsting to ...
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Page 455 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 53 - 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 433 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 458 - Lord came unto me, saying, before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee ; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Page 127 - For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious ; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Page 449 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 105 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 462 - 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 DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 446 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page 50 - ... 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...