John Milton: His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an Appendix, Containing Animadversions Upon Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton, Etc., Etc |
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... ministers . — Enemies to liberty of Conscience . - House of Lords voted to be useless . - Office of King voted to be dangerous to liberty . - Council of State . - Milton com- mences the history of England . - Appointed Latin Secretary ...
... ministers . — Enemies to liberty of Conscience . - House of Lords voted to be useless . - Office of King voted to be dangerous to liberty . - Council of State . - Milton com- mences the history of England . - Appointed Latin Secretary ...
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... ministers , who were inferior to the Bishops in learning . " * this greatest sign of a good man in him , and the highest obligations he could lay upon his friends , without any sordid or mercenary purposes , that gave occasion to his ...
... ministers , who were inferior to the Bishops in learning . " * this greatest sign of a good man in him , and the highest obligations he could lay upon his friends , without any sordid or mercenary purposes , that gave occasion to his ...
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... ministers by the suffrages of the people . Our ceremonies , ' he says , are senseless in themselves , and serve for nothing else but either to facilitate our return to Popery , or to hide the defects of better knowledge , and to set off ...
... ministers by the suffrages of the people . Our ceremonies , ' he says , are senseless in themselves , and serve for nothing else but either to facilitate our return to Popery , or to hide the defects of better knowledge , and to set off ...
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... ministers , to accomplish every politic fetch that was then on foot . If a toleration for mass were to be begged of the king for his sister MARY , lest CHARLES the Fifth should be angry , who but the grave prelates CRANMER and RIDLEY ...
... ministers , to accomplish every politic fetch that was then on foot . If a toleration for mass were to be begged of the king for his sister MARY , lest CHARLES the Fifth should be angry , who but the grave prelates CRANMER and RIDLEY ...
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... ministers published a treatise against Episcopacy , the title Smectymnuus , con- sisting of the initial letters of their names . * A Bishop having condescended to answer it , MILTON says : “ I sup- pose myself to be not less able to ...
... ministers published a treatise against Episcopacy , the title Smectymnuus , con- sisting of the initial letters of their names . * A Bishop having condescended to answer it , MILTON says : “ I sup- pose myself to be not less able to ...
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Page 140 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 225 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse...
Page 270 - Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened, but it is also a sign of regeneration or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed, and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God. The baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained in the Church, as most agreeable...
Page 227 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of...
Page 130 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Page 80 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 223 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 271 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 228 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 227 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...