Prose Works of John Milton ...Hurst, 1865 - 846 pages |
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Page 39
... knowledge , yet which is the best and lightsomest possession of the mind , were , as the common saying is , no burden ; and that what it wanted of being a load to any part of the body , it did not with a heavy advantage overlay upon the ...
... knowledge , yet which is the best and lightsomest possession of the mind , were , as the common saying is , no burden ; and that what it wanted of being a load to any part of the body , it did not with a heavy advantage overlay upon the ...
Page 111
... knowledge , whether of good or evil : the knowledge cannot defile , nor consequently the books , if the will and conscience be not defiled . For books are as meats and viands are ; some of good , some of evil sub- stance ; and yet God ...
... knowledge , whether of good or evil : the knowledge cannot defile , nor consequently the books , if the will and conscience be not defiled . For books are as meats and viands are ; some of good , some of evil sub- stance ; and yet God ...
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... knowledge wherever it may be found . Though as often as I consider the excellence of what you write , you appear to me to have gone among foreigners , not so much for the sake of pro- curing erudition yourself , as of imparting it to ...
... knowledge wherever it may be found . Though as often as I consider the excellence of what you write , you appear to me to have gone among foreigners , not so much for the sake of pro- curing erudition yourself , as of imparting it to ...
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FROM THE TREATISE OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND | 1 |
FROM THE TREATISE OF PRELATICAL EPISCOPACY | 25 |
FROM ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE REMONSTRANTS DEFENCE | 65 |
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