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... present Bishop of Chester , who says : - " There is much reason for regretting , that the prose works of MILTON , where , in the midst of much that is coarse and intemperate , passages of such redeeming beauty occur , should be in the ...
... present Bishop of Chester , who says : - " There is much reason for regretting , that the prose works of MILTON , where , in the midst of much that is coarse and intemperate , passages of such redeeming beauty occur , should be in the ...
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... present time , when the principles of civil and religious liberty which MILTON SO powerfully advocated , have been approved by a majority of our legislature , obtained the sanction of so large a portion of our united empire , and ...
... present time , when the principles of civil and religious liberty which MILTON SO powerfully advocated , have been approved by a majority of our legislature , obtained the sanction of so large a portion of our united empire , and ...
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... present them to the most deserving per- sons . " * " London : printed for Humphrey Robinson , at the sign of the Three Pigeons , in Paul's Church Yard . - 1637 . " It affords full proof of the high respectability of the 20 LIFE OF MILON .
... present them to the most deserving per- sons . " * " London : printed for Humphrey Robinson , at the sign of the Three Pigeons , in Paul's Church Yard . - 1637 . " It affords full proof of the high respectability of the 20 LIFE OF MILON .
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... present , in her huge drag - net , whether fish or sea- weed , shells or shrubs , unpicked , unchosen - these are the fathers . " And so he chides the good bishop USHER , " for divulging useless treatises , stuffed with the specious ...
... present , in her huge drag - net , whether fish or sea- weed , shells or shrubs , unpicked , unchosen - these are the fathers . " And so he chides the good bishop USHER , " for divulging useless treatises , stuffed with the specious ...
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... present ecclesiastical revenues " he says , " were not at first the effects of just policy or wholesome laws , but of the superstitious devo- tion of princes and great men who knew no better ; or of the base importunity of begging ...
... present ecclesiastical revenues " he says , " were not at first the effects of just policy or wholesome laws , but of the superstitious devo- tion of princes and great men who knew no better ; or of the base importunity of begging ...
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Page 130 - CYRIAC, this three years' day, these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman.
Page 80 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 227 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of...
Page 271 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 227 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 231 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than- violence ; for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...
Page 270 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Page 225 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 140 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 61 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.