The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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... judge as they find cause . this I dare own as part of my faith , that if such a one there be , by whose commission whole massacres have been com mitted on his faithful subjects , * his provinces offered to pawn But * The following are a ...
... judge as they find cause . this I dare own as part of my faith , that if such a one there be , by whose commission whole massacres have been com mitted on his faithful subjects , * his provinces offered to pawn But * The following are a ...
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... judge , they communicated and derived either to one , whom for the eminence of his wisdom and integrity they chose above the rest , or to more than one , whom they maintain , on the contrary , that " all men are born slaves ; " and it ...
... judge , they communicated and derived either to one , whom for the eminence of his wisdom and integrity they chose above the rest , or to more than one , whom they maintain , on the contrary , that " all men are born slaves ; " and it ...
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... judge it for the best , either choose him or reject him , retain him or depose him , though no tyrant , merely by the liberty and right of freeborn men to be governed as see seems to them best . This , though it cannot but stand with ...
... judge it for the best , either choose him or reject him , retain him or depose him , though no tyrant , merely by the liberty and right of freeborn men to be governed as see seems to them best . This , though it cannot but stand with ...
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... judge most conducing to the public good . We may from hence with more ease and force of argument determine what a tyrant is , and what the people may do against him . A tyrant , whether by wrong or by right coming to the crown , is he ...
... judge most conducing to the public good . We may from hence with more ease and force of argument determine what a tyrant is , and what the people may do against him . A tyrant , whether by wrong or by right coming to the crown , is he ...
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... judge ( du Haillan is my author ) between Milegast , king of the Vultzes , and his subjects , who had deposed him , gave his verdict for the subjects , and for him whom they had chosen in his room . Note here , that the right of ...
... judge ( du Haillan is my author ) between Milegast , king of the Vultzes , and his subjects , who had deposed him , gave his verdict for the subjects , and for him whom they had chosen in his room . Note here , that the right of ...
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Page 94 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
Page 481 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 358 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Page 89 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 116 - But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 457 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Page 82 - I had), and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than...
Page 55 - ... 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 life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 55 - 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.