The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose WritingsHenry Holt, 1876 - 486 pages |
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... and tides of the world's mutability . We must not run , they say , into sudden ex- tremes . This is a fallacious rule , unless under- B stood only of the actions of virtue about things indifferent OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND . 17.
... and tides of the world's mutability . We must not run , they say , into sudden ex- tremes . This is a fallacious rule , unless under- B stood only of the actions of virtue about things indifferent OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND . 17.
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... country , aspire to high dignity , rule , and promotion here , after a shameful end in this life ( which God grant them ) shall be thrown down eternally into the darkest and deepest gulf of hell OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND . 23.
... country , aspire to high dignity , rule , and promotion here , after a shameful end in this life ( which God grant them ) shall be thrown down eternally into the darkest and deepest gulf of hell OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND . 23.
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... rule and oracle , shall take the good which we light on in the fathers , and set it to oppose the evil which other men seek from them , in this way of skirmish we shall easily master all superstition and false doctrine ; but if we turn ...
... rule and oracle , shall take the good which we light on in the fathers , and set it to oppose the evil which other men seek from them , in this way of skirmish we shall easily master all superstition and false doctrine ; but if we turn ...
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... rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept , or nature to be followed , which in them that know art , and use judgment , is no trans- gression , but an enriching of art : and , lastly , what king or knight before the Conquest ...
... rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept , or nature to be followed , which in them that know art , and use judgment , is no trans- gression , but an enriching of art : and , lastly , what king or knight before the Conquest ...
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... rule and ex- ample teaches us to be so far from a readiness to speak evil , as not to answer the re- viler in his language , though never so much pro- voked : yet in the detecting and convincing of any notorious enemy to truth and his ...
... rule and ex- ample teaches us to be so far from a readiness to speak evil , as not to answer the re- viler in his language , though never so much pro- voked : yet in the detecting and convincing of any notorious enemy to truth and his ...
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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...