English Prose Writings of John MiltonG. Routledge and sons, 1889 - 446 Seiten |
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... less broken attention to the substance and the continuity of reasoning . All the great books in the world deal with essentials . Those written in former time are of the past and of the present , as those written now are of the present ...
... less broken attention to the substance and the continuity of reasoning . All the great books in the world deal with essentials . Those written in former time are of the past and of the present , as those written now are of the present ...
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... less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot , however mean or high , Towards which Time leads me , and the will of Heaven . All is , if I have grace to use it so , As ever in my great ...
... less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot , however mean or high , Towards which Time leads me , and the will of Heaven . All is , if I have grace to use it so , As ever in my great ...
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... less silence before the sacred office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . " Having been thus , as he says , " Church outed " by the prelates , he has the better right to meddle with restraints of which he had ...
... less silence before the sacred office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . " Having been thus , as he says , " Church outed " by the prelates , he has the better right to meddle with restraints of which he had ...
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... less un- suited to the new conditions of life , and it is well for us that we have to bring all our opinions out into the open ground and meet the serried ranks of men who require proof , and much proof . Only that project of reform ...
... less un- suited to the new conditions of life , and it is well for us that we have to bring all our opinions out into the open ground and meet the serried ranks of men who require proof , and much proof . Only that project of reform ...
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... less liable to make our reasonings infirm . But Nature will not work in us the less for our knowing the fact . Hearts do not cease to beat in men who study their anatomy . Each of us who is worth anything to his neighbour would labour ...
... less liable to make our reasonings infirm . But Nature will not work in us the less for our knowing the fact . Hearts do not cease to beat in men who study their anatomy . Each of us who is worth anything to his neighbour would labour ...
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Seite 314 - 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.
Seite 128 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Seite 353 - 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.
Seite 323 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Seite 314 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Seite 118 - 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.
Seite 184 - Hail wedded love! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Seite 50 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Seite 10 - 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. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on...
Seite 299 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.