The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 - Poets, English |
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... she taught the way to others ; although indeed our Wickliffe's preaching , at which all the fucceeding reformers more effectually light- ed their tapers , was to his countrymen but a short blaze , foon damped and ftifled by the pope and ...
... she taught the way to others ; although indeed our Wickliffe's preaching , at which all the fucceeding reformers more effectually light- ed their tapers , was to his countrymen but a short blaze , foon damped and ftifled by the pope and ...
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... she can fay , unless she can bring a ticket from Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley ; or prove herself a retainer to Conftantine , and wear his badge . More tolerable it were for the church of God , that all these names were utterly ...
... she can fay , unless she can bring a ticket from Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley ; or prove herself a retainer to Conftantine , and wear his badge . More tolerable it were for the church of God , that all these names were utterly ...
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... as dearly and as freely , without money , ufe her wholesome and faving terrours : fhe is inftant , she befeeches , by all 1 E 3 the 噜 the dear and fweet promifes of falvation fhe entices Of Reformation in England . 53.
... as dearly and as freely , without money , ufe her wholesome and faving terrours : fhe is inftant , she befeeches , by all 1 E 3 the 噜 the dear and fweet promifes of falvation fhe entices Of Reformation in England . 53.
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... she is that which with her mufical cords preferves and holds all the parts thereof together . Hence in those perfect armies of Cyrus in Xenophon , and Scipio in the Roman ftories , the excellence of military skill was esteem- ed , not ...
... she is that which with her mufical cords preferves and holds all the parts thereof together . Hence in those perfect armies of Cyrus in Xenophon , and Scipio in the Roman ftories , the excellence of military skill was esteem- ed , not ...
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... she be faid in her facrament of water , to imitate the baptism of John . What though the retain excommunication used in the fynagogue , retain the morality of the fabbath ? She does not therefore imitate the law her underling , but per ...
... she be faid in her facrament of water , to imitate the baptism of John . What though the retain excommunication used in the fynagogue , retain the morality of the fabbath ? She does not therefore imitate the law her underling , but per ...
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Page 267 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 115 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 312 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 287 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 107 - 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.
Page 313 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 113 - God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Page 300 - Nor is it to the common people less than a reproach; for if we be so jealous over them, as that we dare not trust them with an English pamphlet, what do we but censure them for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser?
Page 334 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 311 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...