The Prose Works of John Milton: The tenure of kings and magistrates. Areopagitica. Tracts on the Commonwealth. Observations on Ormond's peace. Letters of state, &c. Brief notes on Dr. Griffith's sermon. Of Reformation in England. Of prelatical Episcopacy. The reason of church government urged against prelacy of true religion, heresy, schism, toleration. Of civil power in ecclesiastical causesH.G. Bohn, 1848 - English prose literature |
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Page 68
... virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her follow- ers , and rejects it , is but a blank virtue , not a pure ; + her white- ness is but an excremental ...
... virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her follow- ers , and rejects it , is but a blank virtue , not a pure ; + her white- ness is but an excremental ...
Page 390
... virtue to order well one house : but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest . mettle . And certainly of no less a mind , nor of less ex- cellence in ...
... virtue to order well one house : but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest . mettle . And certainly of no less a mind , nor of less ex- cellence in ...
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... virtue about things indifferent ; for if it be found that those two extremes be vice and virtue , falsehood and truth , the greater extremity of virtue and superlative truth we run into , the more virtuous and the more wise we become ...
... virtue about things indifferent ; for if it be found that those two extremes be vice and virtue , falsehood and truth , the greater extremity of virtue and superlative truth we run into , the more virtuous and the more wise we become ...
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A LETTER TO A FRIEND CONCERNING THE RUPTURES | 102 |
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