Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand ? And what reformation he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider . He ap- pointed certain times for fasts and ...
... hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand ? And what reformation he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider . He ap- pointed certain times for fasts and ...
Pagina 13
... hope , our eternal city in heaven , and to quicken withal the study and exercise of charity ; at such a time that men should be plucked from their soberest and saddest thoughts , and by bishops , the pretended fathers of the Church ...
... hope , our eternal city in heaven , and to quicken withal the study and exercise of charity ; at such a time that men should be plucked from their soberest and saddest thoughts , and by bishops , the pretended fathers of the Church ...
Pagina 21
... hope for the cheerful dawn , never more hear the bird of morning sing ! Be moved with pity at the afflicted state of this our shaken monarchy , that now lies laboring under her throes and struggling against the grudges of more dreaded ...
... hope for the cheerful dawn , never more hear the bird of morning sing ! Be moved with pity at the afflicted state of this our shaken monarchy , that now lies laboring under her throes and struggling against the grudges of more dreaded ...
Pagina 22
... hope and defence , that thine enemies have been consulting all the sorceries of the great whore , and have joined their plots with that sad intelli- gencing tyrant that mischiefs the world with his mines of Ophir , and lies thirsting to ...
... hope and defence , that thine enemies have been consulting all the sorceries of the great whore , and have joined their plots with that sad intelli- gencing tyrant that mischiefs the world with his mines of Ophir , and lies thirsting to ...
Pagina 45
... hope to dissuade the intel- ligent and equal auditor , if I can but say success- fully that which in this exigent behoves me ; al- though I would be heard only , if it might be , by the elegant and learned reader , to whom principally ...
... hope to dissuade the intel- ligent and equal auditor , if I can but say success- fully that which in this exigent behoves me ; al- though I would be heard only , if it might be , by the elegant and learned reader , to whom principally ...
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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...