The Prose Works of John MiltonW. Ball, 1838 - 963 pages |
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Page ii
... less explored , but not less magnificent , domain . - - The recovery of a good book is a sure and certain resurrection . The envious deluge of oblivion cannot long settle over such works as these . The rainbow springs up , and we see it ...
... less explored , but not less magnificent , domain . - - The recovery of a good book is a sure and certain resurrection . The envious deluge of oblivion cannot long settle over such works as these . The rainbow springs up , and we see it ...
Page xv
... less can we believe that God would leave his frail and feeble , though not less beloved church here below , to the perpetual stumble of conjecture and disturbance this our dark voyage , without the card and compass of discipline ...
... less can we believe that God would leave his frail and feeble , though not less beloved church here below , to the perpetual stumble of conjecture and disturbance this our dark voyage , without the card and compass of discipline ...
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... less in merit , but bigger in ambition , strove to vade those privileges by intrusion and plea of right , which Polycarpus , and others like him possessed , from the voluntary surrender of men subdued by the excel- ency of their ...
... less in merit , but bigger in ambition , strove to vade those privileges by intrusion and plea of right , which Polycarpus , and others like him possessed , from the voluntary surrender of men subdued by the excel- ency of their ...
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... less to the contempt of him whom they feign to be the arch founder of prelaty , St. Peter , who , by what he writes in the fifth chapter of his first epis- tle , should seem to be far another man than tradition reports him there he ...
... less to the contempt of him whom they feign to be the arch founder of prelaty , St. Peter , who , by what he writes in the fifth chapter of his first epis- tle , should seem to be far another man than tradition reports him there he ...
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... less is offered . seldom any elegance is wrought without a superfluous This is all we get by demurring in God's service . It waste and refuse in the transaction . No marble statue is not rebellion that ought to be the hinderance of re ...
... less is offered . seldom any elegance is wrought without a superfluous This is all we get by demurring in God's service . It waste and refuse in the transaction . No marble statue is not rebellion that ought to be the hinderance of re ...
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Page 108 - and unbreathcd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be ran for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather;
Page xxxv - Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free : So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 192 - It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement." 32. " But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife,
Page 44 - go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the
Page 117 - wars of truth. For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that errour uses against her power: give her but room, and do not bind her
Page i - ;"—his devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, " who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases,
Page xxiv - That it is lawful, and hath been held so through all ages, for any who have the power, to call to account a tyrant, or wicked king, and after due conviction, to depose and put him to death ; if' the ordinary magistrate have neglected, or denied to do
Page 108 - evil. As therefore the state of man now is; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet
Page 117 - all their equipage, drawn forth his reasons as it were a battle ranged, scattered and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please, only that he may try the matter by dint of argument ; for his opponents then to
Page 31 - This charge I commit to thee, son Timothy : according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare." Which is plain enough thus expounded : This charge I commit to thee, wherein I now go about to instruct thee how thou shall set up