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" But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. "
Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost - Page xxi
by Jonathan Richardson - 1734 - 546 pages
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A First Sketch of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall conceal." When the Word was in the heart of...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will, what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. If he shall think to...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will, what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. If he shall think to...
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English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher, in English Literature

Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...for such talents and scholarship as he possessed, in other walks less retired and peaceful ; and, " when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal." And, he did take the...
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The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Conversations of literary men ...

Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1876 - 618 pages
...of this remark, which I believe J have quoted before, but no time is lost by reading it twice. "... But when God commands to take the trumpet, And blow a dolorous or thrilling blast, It rests not with man's will what he shall say, Or what he shall conceal." Was ever...
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Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner: 1811-1838

Edward Lillie Pierce - Legislators - 1877 - 408 pages
...referring, ' it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands. But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal.' The question is one upon...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 67-68

Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1878 - 694 pages
...peaceable citizen it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be a displcaser and molester of thousands. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. ' Sumner was a man of...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 708 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. . . . For me, I have...
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Third period: Modern phases

Joseph Henry Allen - Church history - 1883 - 350 pages
...manhood — that Milton uses those remarkable words to define the nature of the call he was obeying : " But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal." He was now (1639)...
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Our Liberal Movement in Theology: Chiefly as Shown in Recollections of the ...

Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1882 - 236 pages
...driven of the Spirit," like Jesus. A " necessity is laid upon him," like Paul. And, as Milton says, " When God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal." The occasion...
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