The Prose Works of John MiltonW. Ball, 1838 - 963 pages |
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Page xxxi
... person , who engaged in single combat that fierce advocate of despotism , till then reputed invincible in the opinion of many , and in his own conceit , who insolently chal- lenged us and our armies to the combat ; but whom , while I ...
... person , who engaged in single combat that fierce advocate of despotism , till then reputed invincible in the opinion of many , and in his own conceit , who insolently chal- lenged us and our armies to the combat ; but whom , while I ...
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... persons altogether unlike . As for the office , which was a representation of Christ's own person more imme- diately in the high - priest , and of his whole priestly office in all the other , to the performance of BOOK I. 33 URGED ...
... persons altogether unlike . As for the office , which was a representation of Christ's own person more imme- diately in the high - priest , and of his whole priestly office in all the other , to the performance of BOOK I. 33 URGED ...
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... person the other any distinct formality of ecclesiastical orders and in their representative office , what right of juris- may be inferred . This rather will appear to be the diction soever can be from this place levitically be- lawful ...
... person the other any distinct formality of ecclesiastical orders and in their representative office , what right of juris- may be inferred . This rather will appear to be the diction soever can be from this place levitically be- lawful ...
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... person of a king than to that ment that Solomon gave , it cannot belong to them , mighty Nazarite Samson ; who being ... persons would which were his ornament and strength , deliver him have saved Sodom . Not that I dare advise ye to con ...
... person of a king than to that ment that Solomon gave , it cannot belong to them , mighty Nazarite Samson ; who being ... persons would which were his ornament and strength , deliver him have saved Sodom . Not that I dare advise ye to con ...
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... persons of sundry preachers , and dis- gracing the higher matter in the meaner person . Remonst . A point no less essential to that proposed remonstrance . stand to the courtesy of a night - walking cudgeller for eaves - dropping , nor ...
... persons of sundry preachers , and dis- gracing the higher matter in the meaner person . Remonst . A point no less essential to that proposed remonstrance . stand to the courtesy of a night - walking cudgeller for eaves - dropping , nor ...
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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