What I have spoken is the language of that which is not called amiss ; "The Good old Cause"; if it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should... Select Prose Works - Page 380by John Milton - 1836 - 2 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...their minds on main matters, and sufficiently urge them, in these most difficult times I fmd not many. What I have spoken, is the language of that which...seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I... | |
| John [prose] Milton - 1809 - 638 pages
...their minds on main matters, and sufficiently urge them, in these most difficult times I find not many. What I have spoken, is the language of that which...backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet,... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 636 pages
...minds on main matters, and sufficiently urge them, in these most difficult times I find not many. What' have spoken, is the language of that which is not...not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to hacksliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...their minds on main matters and sufficiently urge them in these most difficult Limes, I find nol many. What I have spoken, is the language of that which...backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to but, with the prophet,... | |
| William Harris - 1814 - 402 pages
...minds on main matters, and sufficiently urge them, in these most difficult times, I find not many. What I have spoken, is the language of that which...backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, tho' I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...minds on main matters, and sufficiently urge them, in these most difficult times, I find not many. What I have spoken, is the language of that which...backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet,... | |
| Southern States - 1829 - 552 pages
...drawing toward* its dissolution, while we abominate the augury from the bottom of our hearts : "What we have spoken, is the language of that which is not...seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should, perhaps, have said, though I were sure... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...monarchy, he printed his " Ready and easy way to establish a free Commonwealth." What he speaks, he says, is the language of that which is not called amiss — " the good old cause." It appears from a passage in this treatise, that commerce had much languished during the civil wars... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - MILTON, JOHN, 1608-1674 - 1833 - 440 pages
...soldiers, and others, what they had to expect from "the Son of Charles returning," he thus concludes: — " What I have spoken, is the language of that which...backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones, and had none to cry to, but with the prophet,... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 320 pages
...and others, what they had to expect from " the Son of Charles returning," he thus concludes : — " What I have spoken, is the language of that which...strange, I hope than convincing to backsliders. Thus 15* much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones,... | |
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