The prose works of John Milton, with prelim. remarks and notes by J.A. St. John, Volume 2 |
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... prince , under the notion of a tyrant , and no mean incendiaries of the war against them , when God , out of his providence and high disposal hath delivered him into the hand of their brethren , on a sudden and in a new garb of ...
... prince , under the notion of a tyrant , and no mean incendiaries of the war against them , when God , out of his providence and high disposal hath delivered him into the hand of their brethren , on a sudden and in a new garb of ...
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... prince who , in that ancient monarchy , perverted his government into a tyranny : for when the elder Cyrus , in his boyhood , signified to his mother , Mandane , a desire to remain in Media , in compliance with her sire's wishes , she ...
... prince who , in that ancient monarchy , perverted his government into a tyranny : for when the elder Cyrus , in his boyhood , signified to his mother , Mandane , a desire to remain in Media , in compliance with her sire's wishes , she ...
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... prince , not drunk with high mind , and prouder than those pagan Cæsars that deified themselves , would arrogate so unreasonably above human condition , or derogate so basely from a whole nation of men , his brethren , as if for him ...
... prince , not drunk with high mind , and prouder than those pagan Cæsars that deified themselves , would arrogate so unreasonably above human condition , or derogate so basely from a whole nation of men , his brethren , as if for him ...
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... prince is bound to the laws ; that on the authority of law the authority of a prince depends , and to the laws ought to submit . Which edict of his remains yet unrepealed in the Code of Justinian , ( 1. i . tit . 24 , ) as a sacred ...
... prince is bound to the laws ; that on the authority of law the authority of a prince depends , and to the laws ought to submit . Which edict of his remains yet unrepealed in the Code of Justinian , ( 1. i . tit . 24 , ) as a sacred ...
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... prince , to gain their liberty , which to have extorted , saith he , from Numa , or any of the good kings before , had not been seasonable . Nor was it in the former example done unlawfully ; for when Roboam had prepared a huge army to ...
... prince , to gain their liberty , which to have extorted , saith he , from Numa , or any of the good kings before , had not been seasonable . Nor was it in the former example done unlawfully ; for when Roboam had prepared a huge army to ...
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Page 524 - But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Page 479 - ... 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 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 89 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. 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 540 - STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath, made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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 92 - ... there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing...
Page 447 - 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 479 - ... victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through 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...