The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... meaning to that which merely amounts from fo many letters , whenas it can confift neither with its former and cautionary words , nor with other more pure and holy principles , nor finally with a scope of charity , com- manding by his ...
... meaning to that which merely amounts from fo many letters , whenas it can confift neither with its former and cautionary words , nor with other more pure and holy principles , nor finally with a scope of charity , com- manding by his ...
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... mean his native innocence and perfection , which might have kept him from being our true Epimetheus ; and though they taught of virtue and vice to be both the gift of divine destiny , they could yet give reasons not invalid , to justify ...
... mean his native innocence and perfection , which might have kept him from being our true Epimetheus ; and though they taught of virtue and vice to be both the gift of divine destiny , they could yet give reasons not invalid , to justify ...
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... mean : worfe in this than the worst obscenities of heathen fuperftition ; for their filthiness was hid , but the mystic reason thereof known to their fages . But this Jewish imputed filthiness was daily and open , but the reafon of it ...
... mean : worfe in this than the worst obscenities of heathen fuperftition ; for their filthiness was hid , but the mystic reason thereof known to their fages . But this Jewish imputed filthiness was daily and open , but the reafon of it ...
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... mean a fit and tolerable marriage , is not infeparable neither by nature nor infti- tution . Not by nature , for then Mofaic divorces had been against nature , if feparable and infeparable be contraries , as who doubts they be ? and ...
... mean a fit and tolerable marriage , is not infeparable neither by nature nor infti- tution . Not by nature , for then Mofaic divorces had been against nature , if feparable and infeparable be contraries , as who doubts they be ? and ...
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... meaning there- fore of these words , ' For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother , and shall cleave to his wife , ' was first to shew us the dear affection which naturally grows in every not unnatural marriage , even to ...
... meaning there- fore of these words , ' For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother , and shall cleave to his wife , ' was first to shew us the dear affection which naturally grows in every not unnatural marriage , even to ...
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Page 173 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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