The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 AFTEL DUE CONVICTION , to dePOSE , AND PUT HIM TO DEATH , IF ...
... 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 AFTEL DUE CONVICTION , to dePOSE , AND PUT HIM TO DEATH , IF ...
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... king's per- son , and no less a party of his lords and commons , or to put * On the conduct of the Presbyterians , Dr. Symmons , himself belonging to the movement party in politics , makes the following pertinent remarks : " In the ...
... king's per- son , and no less a party of his lords and commons , or to put * On the conduct of the Presbyterians , Dr. Symmons , himself belonging to the movement party in politics , makes the following pertinent remarks : " In the ...
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... king , or tyrant , or emperor , the sword of justice is above him ; in whose hand soever is found sufficient power to avenge the effusion , and so great a deluge of innocent blood . For if all human power to execute , not accidentally ...
... king , or tyrant , or emperor , the sword of justice is above him ; in whose hand soever is found sufficient power to avenge the effusion , and so great a deluge of innocent blood . For if all human power to execute , not accidentally ...
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... KINGS isputies & Commissione's with thought of equal deserving : the first was called a king ; the other , magistrates : not to be their lords and masters , ( though afterward those names in some places were given voluntarily to such as ...
... KINGS isputies & Commissione's with thought of equal deserving : the first was called a king ; the other , magistrates : not to be their lords and masters , ( though afterward those names in some places were given voluntarily to such as ...
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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.