The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose WritingsHenry Holt, 1876 - 486 pages |
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... noble achieve- ments made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics . Time serves not now , and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing ...
... noble achieve- ments made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics . Time serves not now , and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing ...
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... noble degree of honest shame , or , call it , if you will , an esteem , whereby men bear an inward reverence toward their own persons . And if the love of God , as a fire sent from heaven to be ever kept alive upon the altars of our ...
... noble degree of honest shame , or , call it , if you will , an esteem , whereby men bear an inward reverence toward their own persons . And if the love of God , as a fire sent from heaven to be ever kept alive upon the altars of our ...
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... noble strength and perfec- tion with those his illustrious and sunny locks , the laws , waving and curling about his godlike shoul- ders . And while he keeps them about him undi- minished and unshorn , he may with the jawbone of an ass ...
... noble strength and perfec- tion with those his illustrious and sunny locks , the laws , waving and curling about his godlike shoul- ders . And while he keeps them about him undi- minished and unshorn , he may with the jawbone of an ass ...
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... noble virtue chastity sure must be , to the defence of which so many wor- thies , by such a dear adventure of themselves , had sworn . And if I found in the story after- ward , any of them , by word or deed , breaking that oath , I ...
... noble virtue chastity sure must be , to the defence of which so many wor- thies , by such a dear adventure of themselves , had sworn . And if I found in the story after- ward , any of them , by word or deed , breaking that oath , I ...
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... noble deeds , the unfinishing whereof already surpasses what others before them have left enacted with their utmost performance through many ages . And to the end we may be confident that what they do proceeds neither from uncertain ...
... noble deeds , the unfinishing whereof already surpasses what others before them have left enacted with their utmost performance through many ages . And to the end we may be confident that what they do proceeds neither from uncertain ...
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Page 461 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 439 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 108 - It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 455 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 107 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 53 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 468 - 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.
Page 452 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page 50 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 119 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.