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... honored name , bring down philosophy from heav- en to earth . ' But let inspired genius fulfil its higher function of lifting the prepared mind from earth to heaven . Impose upon it no strict laws , for it is its own best law . Let it ...
... honored name , bring down philosophy from heav- en to earth . ' But let inspired genius fulfil its higher function of lifting the prepared mind from earth to heaven . Impose upon it no strict laws , for it is its own best law . Let it ...
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... honor to be admitted mourners . But , if she lift up her drooping head and prosper , among those that have something more than wished her welfare , I have my charter and freehold of rejoic- ing to me and my heirs . " Concerning ...
... honor to be admitted mourners . But , if she lift up her drooping head and prosper , among those that have something more than wished her welfare , I have my charter and freehold of rejoic- ing to me and my heirs . " Concerning ...
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... honors and rewards to religious and just commonwealths , shalt put an end to all earthly tyrannies , proclaiming thy universal and mild monarchy through heaven and earth ; where they undoubt- edly , that by their labors , counsels and ...
... honors and rewards to religious and just commonwealths , shalt put an end to all earthly tyrannies , proclaiming thy universal and mild monarchy through heaven and earth ; where they undoubt- edly , that by their labors , counsels and ...
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... honor , yet no powers of heaven or earth will hinder me from looking with reverence and affection upon those , who have thoroughly attained this glory , or appeared engaged in the success- ful pursuit of it . ' 6 His Comus was written ...
... honor , yet no powers of heaven or earth will hinder me from looking with reverence and affection upon those , who have thoroughly attained this glory , or appeared engaged in the success- ful pursuit of it . ' 6 His Comus was written ...
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... honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be , to the defence of which so many worthies by such a dear adventure of themselves , had sworn . *** So that even these ...
... honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be , to the defence of which so many worthies by such a dear adventure of themselves , had sworn . *** So that even these ...
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Page 17 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Page 243 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 38 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 31 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 31 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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 54 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery : and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 30 - Thou hadst the diligence, the parts, the language of a man, if a vain subject were to be adorned or beautified; but when the cause of God and his Church was to be pleaded, for which purpose that tongue was given thee which thou hast, God listened if he could hear thy voice among his zealous servants, but thou wert dumb as a beast; from henceforward be that which thine own brutish silence hath made thee.
Page 52 - O Adam, One Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not deprav'd from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 30 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, 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...
Page 17 - And in sweet madness robbed it of itself; But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.