Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Nide 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... - mi . A Treatise on Christian Doctrine , compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone . By JOHN MILTON , translated from the original by Charles R. Sumner , M. A. & c . & c . 1825 . brought to the office in which it has been found MILTON.
... - mi . A Treatise on Christian Doctrine , compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone . By JOHN MILTON , translated from the original by Charles R. Sumner , M. A. & c . & c . 1825 . brought to the office in which it has been found MILTON.
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... Charles I. shall appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall there- fore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the dis- cussion of that interesting and most important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds ; we ...
... Charles I. shall appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall there- fore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the dis- cussion of that interesting and most important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds ; we ...
Sivu 46
... Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Pa- pist ; we say in name and profession , because both Charles himself and his miserable creature Laud , while they abjured ...
... Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Pa- pist ; we say in name and profession , because both Charles himself and his miserable creature Laud , while they abjured ...
Sivu 47
... So that evil be done , they care not who does it , the arbitrary Charles or the liberal Wil- jiam , Ferdinand the Catholic or Frederick the Protestant ! On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their MILTON . 47.
... So that evil be done , they care not who does it , the arbitrary Charles or the liberal Wil- jiam , Ferdinand the Catholic or Frederick the Protestant ! On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their MILTON . 47.
Sivu 48
... Charles I. broken the fundamental laws of Eng- land ? man , : No person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents , but to the narratives of the ...
... Charles I. broken the fundamental laws of Eng- land ? man , : No person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents , but to the narratives of the ...
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Sivu 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Sivu 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Sivu 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Sivu 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Sivu 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Sivu 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Sivu 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Sivu 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Sivu 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Sivu 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...