The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose WritingsHenry Holt, 1876 - 486 sider |
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Side 6
... give over the earnest study of virtue and godliness , as a thing of greater purity than they need , and the search of divine knowl- edge as a mystery too high for their capacities , and only for churchmen to meddle with ; which is what ...
... give over the earnest study of virtue and godliness , as a thing of greater purity than they need , and the search of divine knowl- edge as a mystery too high for their capacities , and only for churchmen to meddle with ; which is what ...
Side 8
... give out all his commands ambiguous and ob- scure we should think he had a plot upon us ; certainly such commands were no commands , but snares . The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness is ...
... give out all his commands ambiguous and ob- scure we should think he had a plot upon us ; certainly such commands were no commands , but snares . The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness is ...
Side 17
... give us the quiet enjoyment . And this dis- tinction of honor will bring forth a seemly and graceful uniformity over all the kingdom . Then shall the nobles possess all the dignities and offices of temporal honor to themselves , sole ...
... give us the quiet enjoyment . And this dis- tinction of honor will bring forth a seemly and graceful uniformity over all the kingdom . Then shall the nobles possess all the dignities and offices of temporal honor to themselves , sole ...
Side 22
... give up her concealed destruction , ere she could vent it in that horrible and damned blast . O , how much more glorious will those former deliverances appear , when we shall know them not only to have saved us from greatest miseries ...
... give up her concealed destruction , ere she could vent it in that horrible and damned blast . O , how much more glorious will those former deliverances appear , when we shall know them not only to have saved us from greatest miseries ...
Side 29
... give us ; and , indeed , being a point of so high wis- dom and worth , how could it be but we should find it in that book within whose sacred context all wisdom is unfolded ? Moses , therefore , the only lawgiver that we can believe to ...
... give us ; and , indeed , being a point of so high wis- dom and worth , how could it be but we should find it in that book within whose sacred context all wisdom is unfolded ? Moses , therefore , the only lawgiver that we can believe to ...
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Side 461 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Side 439 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Side 108 - It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Side 455 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Side 107 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Side 53 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Side 468 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Side 452 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Side 50 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Side 119 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.