The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Band 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... command her at your pleasure . I send you therefore my congratulations and my thanks , both on account of your friendship and your fkill . I was long kept waiting in expectation of a letter from you , which you had engaged to write ...
... command her at your pleasure . I send you therefore my congratulations and my thanks , both on account of your friendship and your fkill . I was long kept waiting in expectation of a letter from you , which you had engaged to write ...
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... command as it were a tyranny . " Stay but a little , magnanimous bi- fhops , fupprefs your afpiring thoughts , for there is no- thing wanting but Conftantine to reign , and then tyranny herself shall give up all her citadels into your ...
... command as it were a tyranny . " Stay but a little , magnanimous bi- fhops , fupprefs your afpiring thoughts , for there is no- thing wanting but Conftantine to reign , and then tyranny herself shall give up all her citadels into your ...
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... commands ambiguous and obfcure , we should think he had a plot upon us ; certainly fuch commands were no commands , but fnares . The very effence of truth is plainnefs and brightness , the darkness and crookedness is our own . The ...
... commands ambiguous and obfcure , we should think he had a plot upon us ; certainly fuch commands were no commands , but fnares . The very effence of truth is plainnefs and brightness , the darkness and crookedness is our own . The ...
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... command : upon which their carnal defires , the fpirit daily quenching and dying in them , knew no way to keep themselves up from falling to nothing , but by bolftering and fupporting their inward rottenness by a carnal and outward ...
... command : upon which their carnal defires , the fpirit daily quenching and dying in them , knew no way to keep themselves up from falling to nothing , but by bolftering and fupporting their inward rottenness by a carnal and outward ...
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... command in the miniftry ? Thus then we fee that our ecclefiaftical and political choices may confent and fort as well together without any rupture in the state , as Chriftians and freeholders . But as for honour , that ought indeed to ...
... command in the miniftry ? Thus then we fee that our ecclefiaftical and political choices may confent and fort as well together without any rupture in the state , as Chriftians and freeholders . But as for honour , that ought indeed to ...
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Seite 279 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Seite 121 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Seite 323 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 287 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Seite 288 - 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. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 297 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Seite 322 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 275 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Seite 119 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Seite 288 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.