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... falfe conceptions of the vulgar , dares to think , to fpeak , and to be that which the highest wisdom has in every age taught to be the best . But if my difpofition or my deftiny were fuch that I could without any conflict or any toil ...
... falfe conceptions of the vulgar , dares to think , to fpeak , and to be that which the highest wisdom has in every age taught to be the best . But if my difpofition or my deftiny were fuch that I could without any conflict or any toil ...
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... falfe brethren , and the extravagancy of still new opinions ; a time not imitable for church - government , where the temporal and spiritual power did not close in one belief , as under Conftantine . I am not of opinion to think the ...
... falfe brethren , and the extravagancy of still new opinions ; a time not imitable for church - government , where the temporal and spiritual power did not close in one belief , as under Conftantine . I am not of opinion to think the ...
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... falfe glifterings , what is that to truth ? If we will but purge with fovereign eyefalve that intellectual ray which God hath planted in us , then we would would believe the fcriptures protefting their own plainnefs and perfpicuity 24 ...
... falfe glifterings , what is that to truth ? If we will but purge with fovereign eyefalve that intellectual ray which God hath planted in us , then we would would believe the fcriptures protefting their own plainnefs and perfpicuity 24 ...
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... falfe , and to this monarchy the moft pernicious and deftruc- tive that could be chofen . What more baneful to mo- narchy than a popular commotion , for the diffolution of monarchy flides apteft into a democracy ; and what ftirs the ...
... falfe , and to this monarchy the moft pernicious and deftruc- tive that could be chofen . What more baneful to mo- narchy than a popular commotion , for the diffolution of monarchy flides apteft into a democracy ; and what ftirs the ...
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... falfe doctrine ; but if we turn this our discreet and wary ufage of them into a blind devotion towards them , and whatsoever we find written by them ; we both forfake our own grounds and reasons which led us at firft to part from Rome ...
... falfe doctrine ; but if we turn this our discreet and wary ufage of them into a blind devotion towards them , and whatsoever we find written by them ; we both forfake our own grounds and reasons which led us at firft to part from Rome ...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1 John Milton,Charles Symmons Visualização integral - 1806 |
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1 John Milton,Charles Symmons Visualização integral - 1806 |
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Página 279 - 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.
Página 121 - 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.
Página 323 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 287 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 288 - 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 of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 297 - 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 322 - 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 275 - 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.
Página 119 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Página 288 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.