A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volumen 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... contented with stale receipts , are able to manage and set forth new positions to the world . And were they but as the dust and cinders of our feet , so long as in that notion they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armory of ...
... contented with stale receipts , are able to manage and set forth new positions to the world . And were they but as the dust and cinders of our feet , so long as in that notion they may yet serve to polish and brighten the armory of ...
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... contentment , the remedy of our loneliness , will not admit now either of Charity or Mercy , to come in and mediate , or pacify the fierceness of this gentle ordi- nance , the unremedied loneliness of this remedy . Ad- vise ye well ...
... contentment , the remedy of our loneliness , will not admit now either of Charity or Mercy , to come in and mediate , or pacify the fierceness of this gentle ordi- nance , the unremedied loneliness of this remedy . Ad- vise ye well ...
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... contentment , we are still hatching and con- triving upon ourselves matter of continual sorrow and perplexity . What greater good to man than that revealed rule , whereby God vouchsafes to show us how he would be worshipped ? And yet ...
... contentment , we are still hatching and con- triving upon ourselves matter of continual sorrow and perplexity . What greater good to man than that revealed rule , whereby God vouchsafes to show us how he would be worshipped ? And yet ...
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... contentment all their days , yet they shall , so they be but found suita- bly weaponed to the least possibility of sensual enjoy- ment , be made , spite of antipathy , to fadge together , and combine as they may to their unspeakable ...
... contentment all their days , yet they shall , so they be but found suita- bly weaponed to the least possibility of sensual enjoy- ment , be made , spite of antipathy , to fadge together , and combine as they may to their unspeakable ...
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... contented and procured at home and cannot be supported ; such a marriage can be no marriage , whereto the most ... contentment by visiting the stews , or stepping to his neighbour's bed , which is the com- mon shift in this misfortune ...
... contented and procured at home and cannot be supported ; such a marriage can be no marriage , whereto the most ... contentment by visiting the stews , or stepping to his neighbour's bed , which is the com- mon shift in this misfortune ...
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Página 57 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Página 33 - 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 21 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 343 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Página 342 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Página 281 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Página 34 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
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 61 - 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. Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst after knowledge and understanding which God hath stirred up in this city.
Página 58 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.