The prose works of John Milton, with prelim. remarks and notes by J.A. St. John, Volume 2 |
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... council whether they should give him so much as the title of Cæsar . * Let all men judge what this wanted of de- posing or of killing , but the power to do it . In the year 1559 , the Scots protestants claiming promise of their queen ...
... council whether they should give him so much as the title of Cæsar . * Let all men judge what this wanted of de- posing or of killing , but the power to do it . In the year 1559 , the Scots protestants claiming promise of their queen ...
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... council do what they do without precedent , if it appear their duty , it argues the more wisdom , virtue , and magnanimity , that they know themselves able to be a precedent to others ; who perhaps in future ages , if they prove not too ...
... council do what they do without precedent , if it appear their duty , it argues the more wisdom , virtue , and magnanimity , that they know themselves able to be a precedent to others ; who perhaps in future ages , if they prove not too ...
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... councils and synods , and have got the major vote , they too easily believe that either their grandeur , reverence , names , or numbers , must give them the reputation of being orthodox , and in the right , and will war- rant them to ...
... councils and synods , and have got the major vote , they too easily believe that either their grandeur , reverence , names , or numbers , must give them the reputation of being orthodox , and in the right , and will war- rant them to ...
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... council of the nation , as was done by Cæsar in the debates on the Catilinarian conspiracy . - ED . This very ... councils ; and not till AREOPAGITICA . 59.
... council of the nation , as was done by Cæsar in the debates on the Catilinarian conspiracy . - ED . This very ... councils ; and not till AREOPAGITICA . 59.
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... council , wherein bishops themselves were forbid to read the books of Gentiles , but heresies they might read ; while others long before them , on the contrary , scrupled more the books of heretics , than of Gentiles . And that the ...
... council , wherein bishops themselves were forbid to read the books of Gentiles , but heresies they might read ; while others long before them , on the contrary , scrupled more the books of heretics , than of Gentiles . And that the ...
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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...