Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes and analyses by S. Manning |
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... wisdom of speculating at all , and may reject the conclusions arrived at as false or groundless , but we should not charge Milton with heterodoxy for holding them . In questions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy , we should , too , bear in ...
... wisdom of speculating at all , and may reject the conclusions arrived at as false or groundless , but we should not charge Milton with heterodoxy for holding them . In questions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy , we should , too , bear in ...
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... wisdom of God . We count it no gentleness or fair dealing in a man of power amongst us , to require strict and punctual obedience , and yet give out all his commands ambiguous and obscure , we should think he had a plot upon us ...
... wisdom of God . We count it no gentleness or fair dealing in a man of power amongst us , to require strict and punctual obedience , and yet give out all his commands ambiguous and obscure , we should think he had a plot upon us ...
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... wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end , likeness to God , which in one word we call godliness ; and that this is ...
... wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end , likeness to God , which in one word we call godliness ; and that this is ...
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... wisdom , as the object is low , certain it is , that he who hath obtained in more than the scantiest measure to know anything distinctly of God , and of His true worship , and what is infallibly good and happy in the state of man's life ...
... wisdom , as the object is low , certain it is , that he who hath obtained in more than the scantiest measure to know anything distinctly of God , and of His true worship , and what is infallibly good and happy in the state of man's life ...
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... wisdom and virtue may be heard everywhere , as Solomon saith : " She crieth without , she uttereth her voice in the streets , in the top of high places , in the chief con- course , and in the openings of the gates . " Whether this may ...
... wisdom and virtue may be heard everywhere , as Solomon saith : " She crieth without , she uttereth her voice in the streets , in the top of high places , in the chief con- course , and in the openings of the gates . " Whether this may ...
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Page li - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 103 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 247 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 269 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 261 - ... Peace be to this house. 6 And if the Son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. 7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give : for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. 8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you; 9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Page 47 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 49 - ... 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, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Page 296 - And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Page 258 - 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 84 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...