A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volumen 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... freedom to choose ; for reason is but choosing . He had been else a mere artificial Adam , such an Adam as he is in the motions . We ourselves esteem not of that obedience , or love , or gift , which is of force . God therefore left him ...
... freedom to choose ; for reason is but choosing . He had been else a mere artificial Adam , such an Adam as he is in the motions . We ourselves esteem not of that obedience , or love , or gift , which is of force . God therefore left him ...
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... freedom as they supposed England was , while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been ...
... freedom as they supposed England was , while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been ...
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... freedom of writing should be restrained by a dis- cipline imitated from the prelates , and learned by them from the Inquisition to shut us up all again into the breast of a licenser , must needs give cause of doubt and discouragement to ...
... freedom of writing should be restrained by a dis- cipline imitated from the prelates , and learned by them from the Inquisition to shut us up all again into the breast of a licenser , must needs give cause of doubt and discouragement to ...
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... freedom of learning must groan again , and to her old fetters ; all this the parliament yet sitting ; although their own late arguments and defences against the prelates , might remember them that this obstructing violence meets for the ...
... freedom of learning must groan again , and to her old fetters ; all this the parliament yet sitting ; although their own late arguments and defences against the prelates , might remember them that this obstructing violence meets for the ...
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... freedom , but that he would cry out as Pyrrhus did , admiring the Roman docility and courage ; If such were my Epirots , I would not de- spair the greatest design that could be attempted to make a church or kingdom happy . Yet these are ...
... freedom , but that he would cry out as Pyrrhus did , admiring the Roman docility and courage ; If such were my Epirots , I would not de- spair the greatest design that could be attempted to make a church or kingdom happy . Yet these are ...
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Página 34 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 69 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Página 315 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Página 3 - 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 true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Página 289 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Página vi - 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.
Página 303 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Página 171 - It being thus manifest that the power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative, transferred, and committed to them in trust from the People to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright...
Página 266 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.