The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H. Hooker, 1845 |
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... wisdom , or genuine love of country ; and though MILTON may have disapproved of some acts of his administration , it was not inconsistent with any of his professions or principles , or with anything that has been said in praise of him ...
... wisdom , or genuine love of country ; and though MILTON may have disapproved of some acts of his administration , it was not inconsistent with any of his professions or principles , or with anything that has been said in praise of him ...
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... wisdom ; which being given alike to all ages , cannot be prepossessed by the ancients : wherefore , seeing that to seek the truth is inbred to all , they bereave themselves of wisdom , the gift of God , who without judgment follow the ...
... wisdom ; which being given alike to all ages , cannot be prepossessed by the ancients : wherefore , seeing that to seek the truth is inbred to all , they bereave themselves of wisdom , the gift of God , who without judgment follow the ...
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... wisdom of God . We count it no gentleness or fair dealing in a man of power amongst us , to require strict and punctual obedience , and yet give out all his commands ambiguous and obscure ; we should think he had a plot upon us ...
... wisdom of God . We count it no gentleness or fair dealing in a man of power amongst us , to require strict and punctual obedience , and yet give out all his commands ambiguous and obscure ; we should think he had a plot upon us ...
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... wisdom and 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 godliness ; and that this is ...
... wisdom and 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 godliness ; and that this is ...
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... wisdom the vanquishing and uncasing of craft and subtlety , which are but her two runagates : join your invincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds ; and then he that seeks to break your union , a cleaving curse be his inheritance ...
... wisdom the vanquishing and uncasing of craft and subtlety , which are but her two runagates : join your invincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds ; and then he that seeks to break your union , a cleaving curse be his inheritance ...
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Page 201 - 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.
Page 168 - ... 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 lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 185 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 160 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 186 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 320 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page viii - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page xi - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 50 - 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 374 - 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 deny'd to doe it.