The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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Page ii
... desire that pure and lofty minds should keep themselves aloof from the world and the world's business ; for if our object in congregating together in society be to render each other happy — not to seek our own hap- piness at the expense ...
... desire that pure and lofty minds should keep themselves aloof from the world and the world's business ; for if our object in congregating together in society be to render each other happy — not to seek our own hap- piness at the expense ...
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... desires , when he would give birth to them , some calm and tranquil retreat , where he may compose himself , and for the time be free from contention and solicitude . But a wholly retired and contemplative life is fatal to poetry of ...
... desires , when he would give birth to them , some calm and tranquil retreat , where he may compose himself , and for the time be free from contention and solicitude . But a wholly retired and contemplative life is fatal to poetry of ...
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... desire is not to dis- parage an art to which- if the avowal may here be made - I have been from my youth upward devoted : but , could it be proved that poetry necessarily indisposes men towards freedom , inculcating a slavish ...
... desire is not to dis- parage an art to which- if the avowal may here be made - I have been from my youth upward devoted : but , could it be proved that poetry necessarily indisposes men towards freedom , inculcating a slavish ...
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... desires of a popish king , to the profanation of the sabbath , in the hope of having their ambition gratified by beholding the order to which they belonged advanced over the heads of the laymen . His first object , therefore , in coming ...
... desires of a popish king , to the profanation of the sabbath , in the hope of having their ambition gratified by beholding the order to which they belonged advanced over the heads of the laymen . His first object , therefore , in coming ...
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... desires ever thirst- ing after worldly employments , instead of diligent and fervent study in the Bible , they covet to be expert at canons and decretals , which may enable them to judge and interpose in temporal causes , however ...
... desires ever thirst- ing after worldly employments , instead of diligent and fervent study in the Bible , they covet to be expert at canons and decretals , which may enable them to judge and interpose in temporal causes , however ...
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Page 47 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 484 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page iv - ... in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, being but so many wild dreams, and their sentiments and language every way worthy of the matter.
Page 495 - Sonnets, Triumphs, and other Poems. Translated into English Verse by various Hands. With a Life of the Poet by Thomas Campbell. With Portrait and 15 Steel Engravings. 5*.
Page 71 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shall have praise of the same: . for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Page 69 - They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Page 66 - 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 evil-doers, and the praise of them that do well.
Page 33 - When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire...
Page 33 - When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me...