The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1Caxton Press of C. Sherman, 1864 |
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Page 11
... better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand . And what reformation he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider ; he appointed certain times for fasts and feasts ...
... better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand . And what reformation he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider ; he appointed certain times for fasts and feasts ...
Page 13
... better by the Holy Ghost . " In the 74th , " Neither ought custom to hinder that truth should not prevail ; for custom without truth is but agedness of error . " Next Lactantius , he that was preferred to have the bringing up of Con ...
... better by the Holy Ghost . " In the 74th , " Neither ought custom to hinder that truth should not prevail ; for custom without truth is but agedness of error . " Next Lactantius , he that was preferred to have the bringing up of Con ...
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... better it did : better a penurious kingdom , than where excessive wealth flows into the graceless and injurious hands of common spunges , to the impoverishing of good and loyal men , and that by such execrable , such irreligious courses ...
... better it did : better a penurious kingdom , than where excessive wealth flows into the graceless and injurious hands of common spunges , to the impoverishing of good and loyal men , and that by such execrable , such irreligious courses ...
Page 28
... better not have run at all . And for the suddenness , it cannot be feared . Who should oppose it ? The papists ? they dare not . The protestants otherwise affected ? they were mad . There is nothing will be removed but what to them is ...
... better not have run at all . And for the suddenness , it cannot be feared . Who should oppose it ? The papists ? they dare not . The protestants otherwise affected ? they were mad . There is nothing will be removed but what to them is ...
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... better account of their reading , than by divulging needless tractates stuffed with specious names of Ignatius and Polycarpus ; with fragments of old martyrologies and le- gends , to distract and stagger the multitude of credulous ...
... better account of their reading , than by divulging needless tractates stuffed with specious names of Ignatius and Polycarpus ; with fragments of old martyrologies and le- gends , to distract and stagger the multitude of credulous ...
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