Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... LORD ERSKINE . Har MY LORD , MILTON , the least perhaps of all authors , stands in need of a Patron . But a great part of your Lordship's life has been spent in up- holding the same manly and enlightened prin- ciples of freedom , which ...
... LORD ERSKINE . Har MY LORD , MILTON , the least perhaps of all authors , stands in need of a Patron . But a great part of your Lordship's life has been spent in up- holding the same manly and enlightened prin- ciples of freedom , which ...
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... more propriety ,婴 inscribe this edition of his works . I am , my Lord , Your Lordship's Most obedient humble Servant , GEORGE BURNETT . Bristol , Oct. 30 , 1809 . PREFACE . " • THE idea of this publication might DEDICATION. ...
... more propriety ,婴 inscribe this edition of his works . I am , my Lord , Your Lordship's Most obedient humble Servant , GEORGE BURNETT . Bristol , Oct. 30 , 1809 . PREFACE . " • THE idea of this publication might DEDICATION. ...
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... cannot say that I have found any thing remarkable in any of them . I had intended inserting a few ; but have contented myself with the manifesto of the Lord Protector against the Spaniards , known to have been written by Mil- ton FREFACE .
... cannot say that I have found any thing remarkable in any of them . I had intended inserting a few ; but have contented myself with the manifesto of the Lord Protector against the Spaniards , known to have been written by Mil- ton FREFACE .
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... Lords . " This change of balance , arising from the progress of arts and civilized manners , was further pro- moted by the union of the crowns , which , by inducing greater peace and security , gave an increased activity to trade and ...
... Lords . " This change of balance , arising from the progress of arts and civilized manners , was further pro- moted by the union of the crowns , which , by inducing greater peace and security , gave an increased activity to trade and ...
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... Lord Kimbolton and the five mem- bers were accused of high treason ; and the pi- vileges of the house invaded , by the king entering it with an armed force to seize them . From the alarm and commotion excited in the city and in the ...
... Lord Kimbolton and the five mem- bers were accused of high treason ; and the pi- vileges of the house invaded , by the king entering it with an armed force to seize them . From the alarm and commotion excited in the city and in the ...
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adultery ancient answer apostles Areopagitica Aristotle authority better bishops called cause Christ christian church civil command common commonwealth confuter conscience corruption covenant Defence deposed divine divorce doctrine England English episcopacy evil faith force give God's gospel hand hath heave offering heresy holy honour Irenæus JOHN MILTON judge judgment justice justly king king of Spain kingdom labour law of Moses learning less Levites liberty licensing Lord magistrate marriage mean Melchisedec ment Milton mind ministers Moses nation nature never oath opinion ordained papist parliament peace person pope prelates presbyterians presbyters pretend priest princes protestant prove punish reason reformation religion saith schism scrip scripture ship SMECTYMNUUS soul Spaniards spirit suffer teach Tertullian things thou thought tion tithes true truth tyranny tyrant virtue whenas wherein whereof whole wisdom wise words write
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Página 317 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 284 - 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.
Página 295 - 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.
Página 148 - 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.
Página 76 - I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Página 320 - 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...
Página 166 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Página 58 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Página 329 - 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 269 - 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, enflamed 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.