The Prose Works of John MiltonWestley and Davis, 1835 - 976 pages |
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Page ii
... body of Osiris ! " We should have remembered the era in which he lived , and we should have felt our loss as deeply as we sympathized with his party , * See Richard Baron's note , in this edition , to his preface to the Iconoclastes ...
... body of Osiris ! " We should have remembered the era in which he lived , and we should have felt our loss as deeply as we sympathized with his party , * See Richard Baron's note , in this edition , to his preface to the Iconoclastes ...
Page x
... body and function of prelacy , as would be infallibly successful if pronounced before any modern auditory . 66 - The hinderers of reformation in his own times are distinguished " into three sorts : - 1. Antiquitarians ( not Antiquarians ...
... body and function of prelacy , as would be infallibly successful if pronounced before any modern auditory . 66 - The hinderers of reformation in his own times are distinguished " into three sorts : - 1. Antiquitarians ( not Antiquarians ...
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... body of people , cities , states , and councils of the wise and eminent , through the wide expanse of anxious and listening Europe . " Jam videor mihi , ingressus iter , transmarinos tractus et porrectas latè regiones , sublimis ...
... body of people , cities , states , and councils of the wise and eminent , through the wide expanse of anxious and listening Europe . " Jam videor mihi , ingressus iter , transmarinos tractus et porrectas latè regiones , sublimis ...
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... body ; for look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man , the same ye shall find them to a whole state , as Aristotle , both in his Ethics and Politics , from the principles of reason lays down : by consequence ...
... body ; for look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man , the same ye shall find them to a whole state , as Aristotle , both in his Ethics and Politics , from the principles of reason lays down : by consequence ...
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... body also , and bodily things into their command : upon which their carnal desires , the spirit daily quenching and dying in them , knew no way to keep themselves up from falling to nothing , but by bolstering and supporting their ...
... body also , and bodily things into their command : upon which their carnal desires , the spirit daily quenching and dying in them , knew no way to keep themselves up from falling to nothing , but by bolstering and supporting their ...
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Page 108 - 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 104 - 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 204 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery : and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 116 - Methinks I see her as an Eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 117 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 333 - 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 211 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Page 35 - 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 116 - 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 midday beam...
Page 115 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.