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... cause of great misunderstanding . It is not easy to know the truth even about a living man whose life is involved in con- troversies that excite strong feeling . Milton was not austere . In the height of the excitement caused by the ...
... cause of great misunderstanding . It is not easy to know the truth even about a living man whose life is involved in con- troversies that excite strong feeling . Milton was not austere . In the height of the excitement caused by the ...
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... cause of the Catholics and risking the displeasure of the King of France , that first Parliament of Charles the First was suddenly dismissed , and the divisions , of which the seed had been planted by King James the First , began to put ...
... cause of the Catholics and risking the displeasure of the King of France , that first Parliament of Charles the First was suddenly dismissed , and the divisions , of which the seed had been planted by King James the First , began to put ...
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... causes of disunion . His prohibition of books was under a Star Chamber decree of Elizabeth's reign , which ... caused the King to require that nobody should preach , even in the morning , until he had first read divine service according ...
... causes of disunion . His prohibition of books was under a Star Chamber decree of Elizabeth's reign , which ... caused the King to require that nobody should preach , even in the morning , until he had first read divine service according ...
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... caused John Win- throp to be elected Governor at the end of Vane's first year of office , and in 1637 Vane returned to ... cause , and on the 1st of March 1638 there was fervent prayer in St. Giles's Kirk , after which nobles , clergy ...
... caused John Win- throp to be elected Governor at the end of Vane's first year of office , and in 1637 Vane returned to ... cause , and on the 1st of March 1638 there was fervent prayer in St. Giles's Kirk , after which nobles , clergy ...
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... cause they battle for . Milton's duty to his country in a time of danger from the clashing of opinions , was to reason against opinions that imperilled liberty , to be a spiritual soldier in the wars of truth . Captain , or colonel , or ...
... cause they battle for . Milton's duty to his country in a time of danger from the clashing of opinions , was to reason against opinions that imperilled liberty , to be a spiritual soldier in the wars of truth . Captain , or colonel , or ...
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Page 314 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 128 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Page 353 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates : proving that it is lawful, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any who have the Power, to call to Account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due Conviction, to depose, and put him to Death, if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected or denied to do it.
Page 323 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 314 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 118 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 184 - Hail wedded love! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 50 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 10 - Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee; she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on...
Page 299 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.