The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1J. W. Moore, 1859 |
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... adultery among his chosen people ; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship that his laws should countenance : how and in what manner that comes to pass I shall reserve till the course of method brings on ...
... adultery among his chosen people ; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship that his laws should countenance : how and in what manner that comes to pass I shall reserve till the course of method brings on ...
Page 213
... adultery is not the greatest breach of matrimony : that there may be other violations as great . Now whether idolatry or adultery be the greatest violation of marriage , if any demand let him thus consider ; that among Christian writers ...
... adultery is not the greatest breach of matrimony : that there may be other violations as great . Now whether idolatry or adultery be the greatest violation of marriage , if any demand let him thus consider ; that among Christian writers ...
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John Milton. shall be austerely censured , adultery punished , and marriage , the appointed refuge of nature though it hap to be never so incongruous and displeasing , must yet of force be worn out , when it can be to no other purpose ...
John Milton. shall be austerely censured , adultery punished , and marriage , the appointed refuge of nature though it hap to be never so incongruous and displeasing , must yet of force be worn out , when it can be to no other purpose ...
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... adultery with less reproof than for an unchaste look ; not so heavily condemning secret weak- ness , as open malice ... adultery , except it be for adultery , and be not rather understood against the abuse of those divorces permitted in ...
... adultery with less reproof than for an unchaste look ; not so heavily condemning secret weak- ness , as open malice ... adultery , except it be for adultery , and be not rather understood against the abuse of those divorces permitted in ...
Page 221
... adultery by statute . Moses also cannot scape to be guilty of unequal and unwise decrees punishing one act of secret adultery by death , and permitting a whole life of open adultery by law . And albeit lawyers write , that some ...
... adultery by statute . Moses also cannot scape to be guilty of unequal and unwise decrees punishing one act of secret adultery by death , and permitting a whole life of open adultery by law . And albeit lawyers write , that some ...
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