Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... needs rush into the bosom of him that reads or hears ; and the sweet odor of the returning gospel imbathe his soul with the fragrancy of heaven . Then was the sacred Bible sought out of the dusty corners where profane falsehood and ...
... needs rush into the bosom of him that reads or hears ; and the sweet odor of the returning gospel imbathe his soul with the fragrancy of heaven . Then was the sacred Bible sought out of the dusty corners where profane falsehood and ...
Pagina 6
... need , and the search of divine knowl- edge as a mystery too high for their capacities , and only for churchmen to meddle with ; which is what the prelates desire , that when they have brought us back to popish blindness , we might ...
... need , and the search of divine knowl- edge as a mystery too high for their capacities , and only for churchmen to meddle with ; which is what the prelates desire , that when they have brought us back to popish blindness , we might ...
Pagina 7
... need of snuffing , extend any beam to our times , wherewith we might 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 ...
... need of snuffing , extend any beam to our times , wherewith we might 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 ...
Pagina 16
... needs to win a fading triumphant laurel out of the tears of wretched men ? ) but to settle the pure worship of God in his Church , and justice in the state : then shall the hardest difficulties smooth out them- selves before ye ; envy ...
... needs to win a fading triumphant laurel out of the tears of wretched men ? ) but to settle the pure worship of God in his Church , and justice in the state : then shall the hardest difficulties smooth out them- selves before ye ; envy ...
Pagina 28
... needs be to live according to honesty and justice ; which being uttered with those native colors and graces of speech , as true eloquence , the daughter of vir- tue , can best bestow upon her mother's praises , would so incite , and in ...
... needs be to live according to honesty and justice ; which being uttered with those native colors and graces of speech , as true eloquence , the daughter of vir- tue , can best bestow upon her mother's praises , would so incite , and in ...
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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...