The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Bind 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... writer , and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF MILTON ; which , as it grew under his eye , and was ...
... writer , and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF MILTON ; which , as it grew under his eye , and was ...
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... write you an epistle in verse , yet I could not fatisfy my- self without fending also another in profe . For the emotions of my gratitude , which your fervices fo juftly infpire , are too expansive and too warm to be expreffed in the ...
... write you an epistle in verse , yet I could not fatisfy my- self without fending also another in profe . For the emotions of my gratitude , which your fervices fo juftly infpire , are too expansive and too warm to be expreffed in the ...
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... writing to me fooner ; for though nothing gives me more plea- fure than to hear from you , how can I or ought I to ex- pect that you ... write ? Your many recent fer- vices muft prevent me from entertaining any fufpicion of your vices iv.
... writing to me fooner ; for though nothing gives me more plea- fure than to hear from you , how can I or ought I to ex- pect that you ... write ? Your many recent fer- vices muft prevent me from entertaining any fufpicion of your vices iv.
Side xi
... write a few lines , however de- ficient in elegance , than to fay nothing at all . Cambridge , July 21 , 1628 . Adieu , reverend fir . V. To ALEXANDER GILL . If you had made me a present of a piece of plate , or any other valuable which ...
... write a few lines , however de- ficient in elegance , than to fay nothing at all . Cambridge , July 21 , 1628 . Adieu , reverend fir . V. To ALEXANDER GILL . If you had made me a present of a piece of plate , or any other valuable which ...
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... write firft . Though , if the reasons which make each of us fo long in writing to the other should ever be judicially examined , it will ap- pear that I have many more excufes for not writing than you . For it is well known , and you ...
... write firft . Though , if the reasons which make each of us fo long in writing to the other should ever be judicially examined , it will ap- pear that I have many more excufes for not writing than you . For it is well known , and you ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 313 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Side 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...
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 311 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...