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... should re- queft to explain the difference between a Genius and a Man of Genius , and by what operation babit , in the abstract , gets the better of imagination ; remarking only for ourselves , that for the balance - maf- ter to ...
... should re- queft to explain the difference between a Genius and a Man of Genius , and by what operation babit , in the abstract , gets the better of imagination ; remarking only for ourselves , that for the balance - maf- ter to ...
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... should have been added , that the narrowness of Milton's education pre- vented , not only his proficiency in the study of the abftrufer fciences , but even in the elemental acquifitions of reading or fpelling ... 1 " We are therefore ...
... should have been added , that the narrowness of Milton's education pre- vented , not only his proficiency in the study of the abftrufer fciences , but even in the elemental acquifitions of reading or fpelling ... 1 " We are therefore ...
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... should engage Dr. John- fon in writing this Life , to go beyond what would more properly have contented himself ; the leaft intimation from the * Life of Milton , p . 1 .. * 1 Biographer of the impropriety of a nero narrative would Bio ...
... should engage Dr. John- fon in writing this Life , to go beyond what would more properly have contented himself ; the leaft intimation from the * Life of Milton , p . 1 .. * 1 Biographer of the impropriety of a nero narrative would Bio ...
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... should have no fettlement , no peace , no reli- gion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnfon , " If men were not to de- " clare their opinions in fpight of estab- " lifhments ...
... should have no fettlement , no peace , no reli- gion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnfon , " If men were not to de- " clare their opinions in fpight of estab- " lifhments ...
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Francis Blackburne. utility precludes all examination , and he expects his fcandalous chronicle should be licensed and received upon his own bare word . " For Milton to complain of evil " tongues , " fays the Doctor , " required ...
Francis Blackburne. utility precludes all examination , and he expects his fcandalous chronicle should be licensed and received upon his own bare word . " For Milton to complain of evil " tongues , " fays the Doctor , " required ...
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Seite 231 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Seite 203 - 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.
Seite 311 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 315 - ... and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please, only that he may try the matter by dint of argument...
Seite 270 - ... books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that hapless race of men whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
Seite 151 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Seite 232 - 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.
Seite 296 - Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heaven, we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us.
Seite 259 - ... legible, whereof three pages would not down at any time in the fairest print, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time, and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure.
Seite 307 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of...