The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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Page vii
... father . His style , too , is said to be scarcely English . The subjects he loved to treat are spoken of as out - of - date topics , from the consi- deration of which , however handled , no good could now , in the uni- versal blaze of ...
... father . His style , too , is said to be scarcely English . The subjects he loved to treat are spoken of as out - of - date topics , from the consi- deration of which , however handled , no good could now , in the uni- versal blaze of ...
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... fathers ! " From these passages may be discovered how severely the feelings of the puritans had been exasperated by the persecutions they had endured , and in what light each party beheld the other . However , it is by no means my ...
... fathers ! " From these passages may be discovered how severely the feelings of the puritans had been exasperated by the persecutions they had endured , and in what light each party beheld the other . However , it is by no means my ...
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... father's ; where , instead of the modest cheerfulness , the plain repasts , the religious and happy homeliness of a philosophic dwelling , she was surrounded by the brawling sol- diers of the king's army , the most dissolute , depraved ...
... father's ; where , instead of the modest cheerfulness , the plain repasts , the religious and happy homeliness of a philosophic dwelling , she was surrounded by the brawling sol- diers of the king's army , the most dissolute , depraved ...
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... Father , and for each other that brotherly love , forbearance , charity , recom- mended by the precepts and example of Christ . Strife , tumult , con- tention , civil war , he overwhelms with abhorrence , inferior only to that which he ...
... Father , and for each other that brotherly love , forbearance , charity , recom- mended by the precepts and example of Christ . Strife , tumult , con- tention , civil war , he overwhelms with abhorrence , inferior only to that which he ...
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... father , one who , with the means of doing better in his possession , gave his children a wretched penurious education ; that , on returning from his travels , he most unpatriotically engaged in the instruction of youth ; which Johnson ...
... father , one who , with the means of doing better in his possession , gave his children a wretched penurious education ; that , on returning from his travels , he most unpatriotically engaged in the instruction of youth ; which Johnson ...
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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...