Milton Considered as a Political WriterAcademia Fridericiana Halensi, 1882 - 66 pages |
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6560 THE UNIVERSITY abolished according allowed ancient Anglican Apostles Areopagitica authority Bible Bishops book-licensing called canon Christ Christian Church Church-government civil classical antiquity clergy common commonwealth conscience consequence countrymen covenant declares denied divine divorce pamphlet doctrine ecclesiastical election England English Episcopacy Episcopal polity evil exist favour give Gospel Grand Council Greek hinder hireling honour ibid idea institution Introd John Milton John Selden king language Latin learning licensing M's Pr magistrates maintains marriage matter means MICHIGAN GRADUATE LIBRARY Milton says Milton thinks Milton wants Milton's opinion Milton's political writings Milton's views mind minister Monarchy Mosaic law nation nature necessary observes opposes ordination Parliament poetry practice Prelates Presbyterians pupils Puritan question Reformation religion religious liberty right of divorce Salmasius schisms sects soul Suchier Testament things thought tyrant UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN views of religious virtue whole words
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Page 8 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 41 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 33 - He who marries, intends as little to conspire his own ruin, as he that swears allegiance : and as a whole people is in proportion to an ill government, so is one man to an ill marriage. If they, against any authority, covenant, or statute, may, by the sovereign edict of charity, save not only their lives but honest liberties from unworthy bondage, as well may he against any private covenant, which he never entered to his mischief, redeem himself from nnsupportable disturbances to honest peace and...
Page 50 - 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 42 - And these are the errors, and these are the fruits of misspending our prime youth at the schools and universities as we do, either in learning mere words, or such things chiefly as were better unlearned.
Page 41 - ... that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Page 43 - ... that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age.
Page 50 - Many there be that complain of divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues ! when God gave him reason, He gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 27 - But our ministers think scorn to use a trade, and count it the reproach of this age, that tradesmen preach the gospel. It were to be wished they were all tradesmen ; they would not then so many of them, for want of another trade, make a trade of their preaching...
Page 50 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.