The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1873 |
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... mind of Parliament to do - call in once more the aid of the Scots . On this the Parliament had already resolved . As it was judged likely , however , that the Scots would listen more readily to the application for armed aid if it were ...
... mind of Parliament to do - call in once more the aid of the Scots . On this the Parliament had already resolved . As it was judged likely , however , that the Scots would listen more readily to the application for armed aid if it were ...
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... mind of the time , with individual theorists excepted . It be- longed to the Royalists equally with the Parliamentarians ; the only difference being that the objects for " extirpation " in their policy were and had been the Calvinisms ...
... mind of the time , with individual theorists excepted . It be- longed to the Royalists equally with the Parliamentarians ; the only difference being that the objects for " extirpation " in their policy were and had been the Calvinisms ...
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... it was Worcester House or Worcester Place in the City , which had been the mansion of John Tiptoft , Earl of Worcester . mind , including their revision of the Thirty - nine 18 LIFE OF MILTON AND HISTORY OF HIS TIME .
... it was Worcester House or Worcester Place in the City , which had been the mansion of John Tiptoft , Earl of Worcester . mind , including their revision of the Thirty - nine 18 LIFE OF MILTON AND HISTORY OF HIS TIME .
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... mind , including their revision of the Thirty - nine Articles . In that business , where we left them at the Tenth Article ( antè , p . 6 ) , they had crawled on through five Articles more : viz.- " XI . Of Justification by Faith ...
... mind , including their revision of the Thirty - nine Articles . In that business , where we left them at the Tenth Article ( antè , p . 6 ) , they had crawled on through five Articles more : viz.- " XI . Of Justification by Faith ...
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... minds diverted from any " care of God's cause , by their idle , ill - affected and scandalous . " clergy of the University of Cambridge and the Associated " Counties , " and whereas " many that would give evidence " against such ...
... minds diverted from any " care of God's cause , by their idle , ill - affected and scandalous . " clergy of the University of Cambridge and the Associated " Counties , " and whereas " many that would give evidence " against such ...
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Page 243 - 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, inflamed 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...
Page 279 - 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. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood...
Page 71 - 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 13 - GOD, endeavour, in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the Church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies ; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of GOD, and the example of the best reformed Churches...
Page 719 - 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 DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 250 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 468 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent, Would have been held in high esteem with Paul Must now be named and printed heretics, By shallow Edwards, and Scotch what d'ye call...
Page 249 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 719 - These are therefore to will and require you to see the said Sentence executed in the open street before Whitehall, upon the morrow, being the thirtieth day of this instant month of January between the hours of ten in the morning and five in the afternoon of the same day, with full effect.
Page 285 - A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.