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And if any distinction of honour were to be made among them , they directed it should be to those not that only rule well , but especially to those that labour in the word and doctrine . By which we are taught that laborious teaching is ...
And if any distinction of honour were to be made among them , they directed it should be to those not that only rule well , but especially to those that labour in the word and doctrine . By which we are taught that laborious teaching is ...
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... pressing than any supportable toil or weight , which the body can labour under ; how and in what manner he shall dispose and employ those sums of knowledge and illumination , which God hath sent him into this world to trade with .
... pressing than any supportable toil or weight , which the body can labour under ; how and in what manner he shall dispose and employ those sums of knowledge and illumination , which God hath sent him into this world to trade with .
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... that by labour and intense study , ( which I take to be my portion in this life ) joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to after times , as they should not willingly let it die .
... that by labour and intense study , ( which I take to be my portion in this life ) joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to after times , as they should not willingly let it die .
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But because the spirit of man cannot demean ito ? self lively in this body , without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things , it were happy for the commonwealth , if our magistrates , as in those famous governments of ...
But because the spirit of man cannot demean ito ? self lively in this body , without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things , it were happy for the commonwealth , if our magistrates , as in those famous governments of ...
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Those morning haunts are where they should be , at home ; not sleeping , or concocting the surfeits of an irregu- lar feast , but up and stirring , in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour , or to devotion ...
Those morning haunts are where they should be , at home ; not sleeping , or concocting the surfeits of an irregu- lar feast , but up and stirring , in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour , or to devotion ...
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| Title | Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1 Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, George Burnett |
| Author | John Milton |
| Translated by | George Burnett |
| Publisher | J. Miller, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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