The Prose Works of John MiltonWestley and Davis, 1835 - 976 pages |
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Page vii
... learned men among the neighbouring nations , who read my works , may not be induced by this fellow's calumnies , to alter the favourable opinion which they have formed of me ; but may be persuaded that I am not one who ever disgraced ...
... learned men among the neighbouring nations , who read my works , may not be induced by this fellow's calumnies , to alter the favourable opinion which they have formed of me ; but may be persuaded that I am not one who ever disgraced ...
Page viii
... learned Hugo Grotius , at that time ambassador from the Queen of Sweden to the French court ; whose acquaintance I anxiously desired , and to whose house I was accompanied by some of his lordship's friends . A few days after , when I ...
... learned Hugo Grotius , at that time ambassador from the Queen of Sweden to the French court ; whose acquaintance I anxiously desired , and to whose house I was accompanied by some of his lordship's friends . A few days after , when I ...
Page xiv
... learned and able works were produced in the same year . To continue our extracts from the Second Defence : - " Afterwards , " ( that is , after the first pamphlet , ) " when two bishops of superior distinction vindicated their ...
... learned and able works were produced in the same year . To continue our extracts from the Second Defence : - " Afterwards , " ( that is , after the first pamphlet , ) " when two bishops of superior distinction vindicated their ...
Page xviii
... learned tongue ; yet true eloquence I find to be none , but the serious and hearty love of truth : and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things , and with the dearest charity to infuse the ...
... learned tongue ; yet true eloquence I find to be none , but the serious and hearty love of truth : and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things , and with the dearest charity to infuse the ...
Page xxix
... learned , Of knaves concerned , and pedants unconcerned ! Funny - but untrue . Sovereign was the contempt which John Milton entertained for the " mere trappings , " both of pedantry and royalty . Salmasius was in fact little more than ...
... learned , Of knaves concerned , and pedants unconcerned ! Funny - but untrue . Sovereign was the contempt which John Milton entertained for the " mere trappings , " both of pedantry and royalty . Salmasius was in fact little more than ...
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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.