maintained 30 Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms, And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence ; for this was all thy care— To stand approved in sight of... Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 129by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| Andrews Norton - Apologetics - 1852 - 412 pages
...fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth: And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal...sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse." move the vices and miseries which press so heavily upon human society, except correct religious principle.... | |
| Andrews Norton - Apologetics - 1852 - 412 pages
...fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth : And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal...sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse." move the vices and miseries which press so heavily upon human society, except correct religious principle.... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 622 pages
...hast thou fought The hetter fight, who *ingly hast maintain'd 30 Against revolted multitudes the canse Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony' of truth hast horne Universal reproach ffar wome to hear Than violence) ; for this was all thy care 3S To stand approved... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 376 pages
...heard. Servant of GOD, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd so Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in...truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear l° Obsequious] opacous. Bentl. MS. 14 vanistid\ Some editions absurdly read ' vanquish'd.' Than violence... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...heard. Servant of God, well done ; well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth, in...than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth has borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence ; for this was all thy care, To stand... | |
| Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 pages
...heard, " Servant of God, well done ! Well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Against revolted multitudes the cause Of Truth, in...sight of God. though worlds Judged thee perverse." All things promising: and known and not unknown any longer Those things of which he thought himself... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...ordained? This only doctrine does our lusts oppose; Dry den. The better fight, who, singly, hast maintained Against revolted multitudes the cause OF truth, in...Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence. lulil.lon. Well hast thou fought A Christian is the highest style of man; And is there who the blessed... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1855 - 232 pages
...heard. Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth, in...sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse." The "Paradise Lost" is the halo of heavenly glory surrounding the head of the great champion of Puritanism,... | |
| Elbridge Smith - Classical education - 1855 - 84 pages
...heard. Servant of God, well done ; well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth, in...sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse." The " Paradise Lost" is the halo of heavenly glory surrounding the head of the great champion of Puritanism,... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 620 pages
...The better fight, who singly hast maintain'd 30 Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, i:i word mightier than they in arms; And for the testimony'...to bear Than violence); for this was all thy care 35 To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse : the easier conquest now... | |
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