Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pagina's |
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Pagina 39
... called mortal life of man , since all earthly things which have the name of good and conven- ient in our daily use , are withal so cumbersome and full of trouble , if knowledge , yet which is the best and lightsomest possession of the ...
... called mortal life of man , since all earthly things which have the name of good and conven- ient in our daily use , are withal so cumbersome and full of trouble , if knowledge , yet which is the best and lightsomest possession of the ...
Pagina 41
... called to resolve King Edipus in a matter which he knew would be grievous , brings him in bemoaning his lot , that he knew more than other men . For surely to every good and peaceable man it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be ...
... called to resolve King Edipus in a matter which he knew would be grievous , brings him in bemoaning his lot , that he knew more than other men . For surely to every good and peaceable man it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be ...
Pagina 50
... called fortune from without , or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe : teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue ...
... called fortune from without , or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe : teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue ...
Pagina 77
... called regenerate rea- So that how he should be truly eloquent who is not withal a good man , I see not . son . · For as in teaching , doubtless , the spirit of meek- ness is most powerful , so are the meek only fit persons to be taught ...
... called regenerate rea- So that how he should be truly eloquent who is not withal a good man , I see not . son . · For as in teaching , doubtless , the spirit of meek- ness is most powerful , so are the meek only fit persons to be taught ...
Pagina 83
... called a defile- ment . Thus large I have purposely been , that if I have been justly taxed with this crime , it may come upon me , after all this my confession , with a tenfold shame : but if I have hitherto deserved no such ...
... called a defile- ment . Thus large I have purposely been , that if I have been justly taxed with this crime , it may come upon me , after all this my confession , with a tenfold shame : but if I have hitherto deserved no such ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 431 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Pagina 92 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of triie virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Pagina 99 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Pagina 33 - His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay
Pagina 460 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, 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 deny'd to doe it.
Pagina 444 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Pagina 451 - Create in me a clean heart, 0 God ; and renew a right spirit within me.
Pagina 118 - ... there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world. Neither can every piece of the building be of one form; nay, rather the perfection consists in this, that out of many moderate varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that are not vastly disproportional, arises the goodly and the graceful symmetry that...
Pagina 120 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Pagina 429 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...