The Prose Works of John MiltonWestley and Davis, 1835 - 976 pages |
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... confess that I am indebted for all my proficiency in literature . " This is literary injustice . We cannot but regret that the illustrious individual we refer to , who has given an impulse to the mind of his age , favoured not his ...
... confess that I am indebted for all my proficiency in literature . " This is literary injustice . We cannot but regret that the illustrious individual we refer to , who has given an impulse to the mind of his age , favoured not his ...
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... confess that such things have been practised ; for yourself have not the impudence to deny it : but not by protestants upon a protestant king . But there being so few protestant kings , it is no great wonder , if it never happened that ...
... confess that such things have been practised ; for yourself have not the impudence to deny it : but not by protestants upon a protestant king . But there being so few protestant kings , it is no great wonder , if it never happened that ...
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... confess , then can she not be a handmaid to wait on civil commodities and respects ; and if the nature and limits of church - discipline be such , as are either helpful to all political estates indif- ferently , or have no particular ...
... confess , then can she not be a handmaid to wait on civil commodities and respects ; and if the nature and limits of church - discipline be such , as are either helpful to all political estates indif- ferently , or have no particular ...
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... confessing , that what knowledge they had in this point was such as they had gathered from the Bible . Since ... confesses in the 4th chapter of his third book , That it was no easy matter to tell who were those that were left bishops of ...
... confessing , that what knowledge they had in this point was such as they had gathered from the Bible . Since ... confesses in the 4th chapter of his third book , That it was no easy matter to tell who were those that were left bishops of ...
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... confess- ors ; and that with such odious ambition , that Euse- bius , in his eighth book , testifies he abhorred to write . And the reason is not obscure , for the poor dignity , or rather burden , of a parochial presbyter could not en ...
... confess- ors ; and that with such odious ambition , that Euse- bius , in his eighth book , testifies he abhorred to write . And the reason is not obscure , for the poor dignity , or rather burden , of a parochial presbyter could not en ...
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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.