The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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... virtue , and opened a clearer insight into the moral nature and heroic sentiments of a man , in the brightness and continuance of whose fame every Englishman is in- terested . However this may be , few of those who have hitherto ...
... virtue , and opened a clearer insight into the moral nature and heroic sentiments of a man , in the brightness and continuance of whose fame every Englishman is in- terested . However this may be , few of those who have hitherto ...
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... virtue . The spirit of poetry is a spirit of power , which , in him who is pos- sessed by it , cannot fail to engender a consciousness of dignity . He feels that he bears within him mines richer than those of gold or diamonds , which ...
... virtue . The spirit of poetry is a spirit of power , which , in him who is pos- sessed by it , cannot fail to engender a consciousness of dignity . He feels that he bears within him mines richer than those of gold or diamonds , which ...
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... virtues , or enlarge his thoughts , or lift him above the clouds of prejudice , or provide for the innocent entertainment of his leisure . Milton was pre - eminently an utilitarian . In all he wrote he had a view to the public good ...
... virtues , or enlarge his thoughts , or lift him above the clouds of prejudice , or provide for the innocent entertainment of his leisure . Milton was pre - eminently an utilitarian . In all he wrote he had a view to the public good ...
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... virtue to order well one house ; but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest mettle . And certainly of no less a mind , nor of less excellence in another ...
... virtue to order well one house ; but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest mettle . And certainly of no less a mind , nor of less excellence in another ...
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... virtue , and that which springs from thence - magnanimity ; ( take heed of that ; ) and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end - likeness to God , which , in one word , we call godli- ness ; and that this is the ...
... virtue , and that which springs from thence - magnanimity ; ( take heed of that ; ) and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end - likeness to God , which , in one word , we call godli- ness ; and that this is the ...
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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...