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Page 12
... true , -to mutable condition of the time for which he writes . In that way Milton wrote the pieces that are here collected . Of every argument that seemed to strike too boldly against custom and tradition he had to continue the defence ...
... true , -to mutable condition of the time for which he writes . In that way Milton wrote the pieces that are here collected . Of every argument that seemed to strike too boldly against custom and tradition he had to continue the defence ...
Page 13
... true reader of the true old book looks to the soul of it , and while hearing that speak to the day for which it lived and worked , adapts its voice also to the changed conditions of the later day in which it may be still living and ...
... true reader of the true old book looks to the soul of it , and while hearing that speak to the day for which it lived and worked , adapts its voice also to the changed conditions of the later day in which it may be still living and ...
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... true life was shown in his custom of giving two hours of the evening of every day to intercourse with friends , when he was visited or paid visits , and shared easy talk over his pipe . A boy apt for friendship is likely to find in a ...
... true life was shown in his custom of giving two hours of the evening of every day to intercourse with friends , when he was visited or paid visits , and shared easy talk over his pipe . A boy apt for friendship is likely to find in a ...
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... true and inward worship of God ; which , while we live in the body , needs external helps , and all little enough to keep it in any vigour . " This was the battle for securing Unity of Worship by the maintenance of one uniform ...
... true and inward worship of God ; which , while we live in the body , needs external helps , and all little enough to keep it in any vigour . " This was the battle for securing Unity of Worship by the maintenance of one uniform ...
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... true grace is extinguished , or as an inter- lude to set out the pomp of prelatism . Certainly it would be worth the while therefore and the pains , to inquire more par- ticularly what and how many the chief Causes have been , that have ...
... true grace is extinguished , or as an inter- lude to set out the pomp of prelatism . Certainly it would be worth the while therefore and the pains , to inquire more par- ticularly what and how many the chief Causes have been , that have ...
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Page 314 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 414 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 323 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 314 - ... who kills a man kills a reasonable 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 lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 300 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 338 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Page 271 - 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 324 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Page 307 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 118 - 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.