The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2H. Hooker, 1845 |
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... writing , as that perhaps all nations and all ages may read them , it would be a very vain thing in me . For what style can be august and magnificent enough , what man has parts sufficient to undertake so great a task ? Since we find by ...
... writing , as that perhaps all nations and all ages may read them , it would be a very vain thing in me . For what style can be august and magnificent enough , what man has parts sufficient to undertake so great a task ? Since we find by ...
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... writing . And being but weak in body , I am forced to write by piecemeal , and break off almost every hour , though the subject be such as requires an uninter- mitted study and intenseness of mind . But though this bodily indisposition ...
... writing . And being but weak in body , I am forced to write by piecemeal , and break off almost every hour , though the subject be such as requires an uninter- mitted study and intenseness of mind . But though this bodily indisposition ...
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... write a defence of the king his father , should not only set so ful- some a preface before it , much like those lamentable ditties that used to be sung at funerals , and which can move compassion in none but a coxcomb ; but in the very ...
... write a defence of the king his father , should not only set so ful- some a preface before it , much like those lamentable ditties that used to be sung at funerals , and which can move compassion in none but a coxcomb ; but in the very ...
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... write a great deal , take no pains to write well ; nor could write any thing well , though you took never so much pains . " This cause shall be argued ( say you ) in the hearing , and as it were before the tribunal , of all mankind ...
... write a great deal , take no pains to write well ; nor could write any thing well , though you took never so much pains . " This cause shall be argued ( say you ) in the hearing , and as it were before the tribunal , of all mankind ...
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... writes , a proper and able interpreter of the laws of his own country , who was admirably well versed in the Jewish policy , and infinitely preferable to a thousand obscure ignorant rabbins : he has it thus in the fourth book of his ...
... writes , a proper and able interpreter of the laws of his own country , who was admirably well versed in the Jewish policy , and infinitely preferable to a thousand obscure ignorant rabbins : he has it thus in the fourth book of his ...
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Page 160 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 193 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Page 42 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 166 - But Peter said unto him ; Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Page 159 - Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest ? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields ; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 347 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Page 167 - 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 130 - Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Page 139 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Page 149 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.