The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volumen1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... wish of illustrat- ing a great and an injured character , I under- took , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work . Unacquainted with the general progress of the publication , with which my biography was to be ...
... wish of illustrat- ing a great and an injured character , I under- took , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work . Unacquainted with the general progress of the publication , with which my biography was to be ...
Página ix
... wish for his relief from what may justly be considered as the severest of human evils . I belong to a fallible species , and am , probably , to be numbered with the most fal- lible of its individuals : but I am superior to fraud , and ...
... wish for his relief from what may justly be considered as the severest of human evils . I belong to a fallible species , and am , probably , to be numbered with the most fal- lible of its individuals : but I am superior to fraud , and ...
Página xi
... wish you would give me an answer to each of these queftions ; and that you may not suppose that I am quite unconcerned about what relates to you , I must inform you that in the beginning of the autumn I went out of my way to fee your ...
... wish you would give me an answer to each of these queftions ; and that you may not suppose that I am quite unconcerned about what relates to you , I must inform you that in the beginning of the autumn I went out of my way to fee your ...
Página xi
... wish me my health fix hundred times , in as great a quantity as I can wifh , as I am able to bear , or even more than this . Truly , you fhould be appointed butler to the house of Health , whofe ftores you fo lavishly bestow ; or at ...
... wish me my health fix hundred times , in as great a quantity as I can wifh , as I am able to bear , or even more than this . Truly , you fhould be appointed butler to the house of Health , whofe ftores you fo lavishly bestow ; or at ...
Página xii
... wish to embrace it , of obliging foreigners , among whom there is no one at all confpicuous for genius or for elegance who does not make the Tuscan language his delight , and indeed confider it as an effential part of education ...
... wish to embrace it , of obliging foreigners , among whom there is no one at all confpicuous for genius or for elegance who does not make the Tuscan language his delight , and indeed confider it as an effential part of education ...
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Página 267 - 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 115 - 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 312 - 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 287 - 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 107 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Página 313 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 113 - God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Página 300 - Nor is it to the common people less than a reproach; for if we be so jealous over them, as that we dare not trust them with an English pamphlet, what do we but censure them for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser?
Página 334 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Página 311 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...