The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose WritingsHenry Holt, 1876 - 486 pages |
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... wisdom of God . We count it no gentleness or fair dealing in a man of power amongst us , to require strict and punctual obedience , and yet give out all his commands ambiguous and ob- scure we should think he had a plot upon us ...
... wisdom of God . We count it no gentleness or fair dealing in a man of power amongst us , to require strict and punctual obedience , and yet give out all his commands ambiguous and ob- scure we should think he had a plot upon us ...
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... wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regenera- tion , and happiest end , likeness to God , which in one word we call godliness ; and that this is ...
... wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regenera- tion , and happiest end , likeness to God , which in one word we call godliness ; and that this is ...
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... wisdom , the moderation , the Christian piety , the constancy , of our nobility and commons of England , be ever forgotten , whose calm and temperate connivance could sit still and smile out the stormy bluster of men more audacious and ...
... wisdom , the moderation , the Christian piety , the constancy , of our nobility and commons of England , be ever forgotten , whose calm and temperate connivance could sit still and smile out the stormy bluster of men more audacious and ...
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... wisdom the vanquishing and uncasing of craft and subtlety , which are but her two runagates : join your invincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds ; and then he that seeks to break your union , a cleaving curse be his inheritance ...
... wisdom the vanquishing and uncasing of craft and subtlety , which are but her two runagates : join your invincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds ; and then he that seeks to break your union , a cleaving curse be his inheritance ...
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... wisdom is unfolded ? Moses , therefore , the only lawgiver that we can believe to have been visibly taught of God , knowing how vain it was to write laws to men whose hearts were not first seasoned with the knowledge of God and of his ...
... wisdom is unfolded ? Moses , therefore , the only lawgiver that we can believe to have been visibly taught of God , knowing how vain it was to write laws to men whose hearts were not first seasoned with the knowledge of God and of 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...