John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 páginas |
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... faith and worship ; but the con- struction of the scheme indicates far more of Jesuitical subtlety than of the Christian manliness of the great reformers . The scheme of the Anglican church propitiated the Protestants by presenting the ...
... faith and worship ; but the con- struction of the scheme indicates far more of Jesuitical subtlety than of the Christian manliness of the great reformers . The scheme of the Anglican church propitiated the Protestants by presenting the ...
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... faith , after he had shaken off the supremacy of the pope . His ordinances , indeed , vibrated for a short time between the old and the new religion , as he listened more to Cranmer or to Gardiner ; but the law of the six articles ...
... faith , after he had shaken off the supremacy of the pope . His ordinances , indeed , vibrated for a short time between the old and the new religion , as he listened more to Cranmer or to Gardiner ; but the law of the six articles ...
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... faith at the sacrifice of his paternal inheritance and his immediate prospects . Having abruptly quitted the University upon this change of his fortunes , he commenced practice in London as a scrivener ; and , while procuring the means ...
... faith at the sacrifice of his paternal inheritance and his immediate prospects . Having abruptly quitted the University upon this change of his fortunes , he commenced practice in London as a scrivener ; and , while procuring the means ...
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... faith ; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . " It is recorded of Dr. Johnson , that when asked by a lady who was better instructed in ...
... faith ; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . " It is recorded of Dr. Johnson , that when asked by a lady who was better instructed in ...
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... faith and practice ; a principle which the lofty and generous nature of Milton held in utter detestation . As little justice is there in the remark which follows - that " the thought of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised ...
... faith and practice ; a principle which the lofty and generous nature of Milton held in utter detestation . As little justice is there in the remark which follows - that " the thought of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised ...
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Página 111 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Página 12 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell...
Página 180 - CYRIACK, 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. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 12 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Página 181 - Purification in the 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...
Página 113 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 121 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on. But when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Página 136 - 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.
Página 120 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Página 123 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.