The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H. Hooker, 1845 |
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... force of my talents and my industry to this one important object . " He accordingly wrote and published in the year 1641 his first work in prose , under the title Of Reformation in England , and the Causes that hitherto have hindered it ...
... force of my talents and my industry to this one important object . " He accordingly wrote and published in the year 1641 his first work in prose , under the title Of Reformation in England , and the Causes that hitherto have hindered it ...
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... force of its reasoning , continues to be without a parallel in the literature of the world . He was the first to assert the unlimited right of discussion , and has left nothing to be said on this question by succeeding ages . " Who ...
... force of its reasoning , continues to be without a parallel in the literature of the world . He was the first to assert the unlimited right of discussion , and has left nothing to be said on this question by succeeding ages . " Who ...
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... force content themselves with what they had already done . Hereupon followed ambitious contentions among the peers , which ceased not but with the protector's death , who was the most zealous in this point : and then Northumberland was ...
... force content themselves with what they had already done . Hereupon followed ambitious contentions among the peers , which ceased not but with the protector's death , who was the most zealous in this point : and then Northumberland was ...
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... force , then by this devilish policy , to draw them from the sanctuary of God to the luxurious and ribald feasts of Baal - peor . Thus have they trespassed not only against the monarchy of England , but of heaven also , as others , I ...
... force , then by this devilish policy , to draw them from the sanctuary of God to the luxurious and ribald feasts of Baal - peor . Thus have they trespassed not only against the monarchy of England , but of heaven also , as others , I ...
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... force to deduce episcopacy , than the two former . He says that the church of Smyrna had Polycarpus placed there by John , and the church of Rome , Clement ordained by Peter ; and so the rest of the churches did show what bishops they ...
... force to deduce episcopacy , than the two former . He says that the church of Smyrna had Polycarpus placed there by John , and the church of Rome , Clement ordained by Peter ; and so the rest of the churches did show what bishops they ...
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Page 201 - WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 168 - ... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 185 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 160 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 186 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 320 - 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.
Page viii - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page xi - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Page 50 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 374 - 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.