The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Band 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... such over- whelming force as to oppress all my facul- ties , and , during a heavy interval of many successive months , to render me incapable of the slightest mental exertion . From this half - animated state I was , at length , roused ...
... such over- whelming force as to oppress all my facul- ties , and , during a heavy interval of many successive months , to render me incapable of the slightest mental exertion . From this half - animated state I was , at length , roused ...
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... such as this , there is not fo much need of letters as of a lively recol- lection of each other's virtues . And though you have not written , you have fomething that may fupply the omiffion : your probity writes to me in your ftead ; it ...
... such as this , there is not fo much need of letters as of a lively recol- lection of each other's virtues . And though you have not written , you have fomething that may fupply the omiffion : your probity writes to me in your ftead ; it ...
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... such fingular benevolence to the freedom of my converfation on topics of religion . With pleasure I perufed your defcription of the funeral of king Louis . I do not acknowledge the infpiration of that vulgar and mercenary Mercury whom ...
... such fingular benevolence to the freedom of my converfation on topics of religion . With pleasure I perufed your defcription of the funeral of king Louis . I do not acknowledge the infpiration of that vulgar and mercenary Mercury whom ...
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... Such is the enterprize in which you seem to wish to im- plore my aid . And what did formerly men of the greatest courage and eloquence deem more noble or more glorious , than by their orations or their valour to affert the liberty and ...
... Such is the enterprize in which you seem to wish to im- plore my aid . And what did formerly men of the greatest courage and eloquence deem more noble or more glorious , than by their orations or their valour to affert the liberty and ...
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... And among these Salluft is in my opinion the chief of the Latin writers . Such are the virtues which I think that every hiftorian ought to poffefs who would proportion his ftyle to the facts which he records . But his- xxxiv.
... And among these Salluft is in my opinion the chief of the Latin writers . Such are the virtues which I think that every hiftorian ought to poffefs who would proportion his ftyle to the facts which he records . But his- xxxiv.
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Seite 267 - 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 115 - 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 312 - 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 287 - 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 107 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Seite 313 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 113 - God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Seite 300 - Nor is it to the common people less than a reproach; for if we be so jealous over them, as that we dare not trust them with an English pamphlet, what do we but censure them for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser?
Seite 334 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Seite 311 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...