Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... few who could reason calmnly amidst the tumult of the civil wars ) -no government is of so acci- dental or arbitrary an institution , as people are b VOL . I. 1 wont to imagine ; there being in societies natural INTRODUCTION. ...
... few who could reason calmnly amidst the tumult of the civil wars ) -no government is of so acci- dental or arbitrary an institution , as people are b VOL . I. 1 wont to imagine ; there being in societies natural INTRODUCTION. ...
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... natural causes producing their necessary effects , as well as in the earth or the air . Hence , the troubles of the times are not to be attributed wholly to wilfulness or faction ; neither to the misgovern- ment of the prince , nor the ...
... natural causes producing their necessary effects , as well as in the earth or the air . Hence , the troubles of the times are not to be attributed wholly to wilfulness or faction ; neither to the misgovern- ment of the prince , nor the ...
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... natural disposition or education in me , or that my mother bore me a speaker of what God made mine own , and not a trans- lator . " Tetrachordon and Colasterion , followed , in 1645 ; the former being an exposition of the four chief ...
... natural disposition or education in me , or that my mother bore me a speaker of what God made mine own , and not a trans- lator . " Tetrachordon and Colasterion , followed , in 1645 ; the former being an exposition of the four chief ...
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... nature , softening into for- giveness , beheld in his enemies nothing but his murderers . The appearance of such a book at this critical moment could not fail to be attended with danger , and it behoved the rulers if possible to ...
... nature , softening into for- giveness , beheld in his enemies nothing but his murderers . The appearance of such a book at this critical moment could not fail to be attended with danger , and it behoved the rulers if possible to ...
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... nature of the subject , showed the English government the necessity of a reply . Milton was present in the council when the question was agitated , and all directed their eyes towards him as the fittest antagonist for this redoubted foe ...
... nature of the subject , showed the English government the necessity of a reply . Milton was present in the council when the question was agitated , and all directed their eyes towards him as the fittest antagonist for this redoubted foe ...
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Page 317 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 284 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 295 - 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 148 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 76 - I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 320 - 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 166 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page 58 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 329 - 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.
Page 269 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.