The prose works of John Milton, with prelim. remarks and notes by J.A. St. John, Volume 2 |
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... judge as they find cause . But 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 * The following are a ...
... judge as they find cause . But 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 * 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 seems to them best . This , though it cannot but stand with plain ...
... 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 seems to them best . This , though it cannot but stand with plain ...
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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 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...