The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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... Lives of the Painters , Sculptors , and Architects . Translated by Mrs. FOSTER . 5 vols . Wesley's ( John ) Life . By ROBERT SOUTHEY . New and Complete Edition . Double volume . 5s . Wheatley on the Book of Common Prayer . Frontispiece ...
... Lives of the Painters , Sculptors , and Architects . Translated by Mrs. FOSTER . 5 vols . Wesley's ( John ) Life . By ROBERT SOUTHEY . New and Complete Edition . Double volume . 5s . Wheatley on the Book of Common Prayer . Frontispiece ...
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... Lives of the Queens of England , from the Norman Conquest . From official records and authentic documents , private and public . Revised Edition . In 6 vols . Bohn's Library of French Memoirs . UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY , AT 3s ...
... Lives of the Queens of England , from the Norman Conquest . From official records and authentic documents , private and public . Revised Edition . In 6 vols . Bohn's Library of French Memoirs . UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY , AT 3s ...
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... live nor subsist unless it be mutual ; and where love cannot be , there can be left of wedlock nothing but the empty husk of an outside matrimony , as undelightful and unpleasing to God as any other kind xvi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... live nor subsist unless it be mutual ; and where love cannot be , there can be left of wedlock nothing but the empty husk of an outside matrimony , as undelightful and unpleasing to God as any other kind xvi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
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... lives , praise , countenance , congratulation . To achieve this , the one party must be a magician , or the other party must be fools . The presumption , therefore , a priori , is , that Milton was not a regicide ; in fact , could not ...
... lives , praise , countenance , congratulation . To achieve this , the one party must be a magician , or the other party must be fools . The presumption , therefore , a priori , is , that Milton was not a regicide ; in fact , could not ...
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... Lives of the Poets , and con- demned to the oblivion it deserves , the following remarks would be in some measure unnecessary . But so long as that production is reprinted , and circulated , every honest and impartial man , however ...
... Lives of the Poets , and con- demned to the oblivion it deserves , the following remarks would be in some measure unnecessary . But so long as that production is reprinted , and circulated , every honest and impartial man , 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...