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... spirit , retire themselves , knowing no better , to the enjoyments of ease and luxury , living out their days in feast and jollity , which indeed is the wisest and the safest course of all these , unless they were with more integrity ...
... spirit , retire themselves , knowing no better , to the enjoyments of ease and luxury , living out their days in feast and jollity , which indeed is the wisest and the safest course of all these , unless they were with more integrity ...
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... spirit and vigor of Demosthenes or Cicero , Euripides or Sophocles . And now , lastly , will be the time to read with them those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously , elegantly , and according to the ...
... spirit and vigor of Demosthenes or Cicero , Euripides or Sophocles . And now , lastly , will be the time to read with them those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously , elegantly , and according to the ...
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... happy and very possible accord- ing to best wishes , if God have so decreed , and this have spirit and capacity enough to apprehend . age AREOPAGITICA : A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING 16 OF EDUCATION .
... happy and very possible accord- ing to best wishes , if God have so decreed , and this have spirit and capacity enough to apprehend . age AREOPAGITICA : A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING 16 OF EDUCATION .
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... spirit , imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life . It is true no age can restore a life , whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolu- tions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth , for the ...
... spirit , imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life . It is true no age can restore a life , whereof perhaps there is no great loss ; and revolu- tions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth , for the ...
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... spirit ? yet not suiting with every low decrepit humor of their own , though it were Knox himself , the reformer of a king- dom , that spake it , they will not pardon him their dash ; the sense of that great man shall to all poster- ity ...
... spirit ? yet not suiting with every low decrepit humor of their own , though it were Knox himself , the reformer of a king- dom , that spake it , they will not pardon him their dash ; the sense of that great man shall to all poster- ity ...
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adultery ancient answer apostle Aristotle authority better called canon canon law cause charity Christ christian church civil command common conscience corrupt council covenant deny discourse divine divorce doctrine duty evil faith fear force free commonwealth freedom give God's gospel hath heave offering heresy heretic holy honor idolatry Jews judge judgment justice justly king kingdom labor law of Moses learning less lest liberty licensing liturgy live lords magistrate marriage matter means ment mind ministers Moses nation nature never oath ofttimes opinions ordinance outward papist parliament PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND peace perpetual person persuade Pharisees Plato prayer preach prelates pretend protestant punishment reason reformation religion religious remedy saith Saviour schisms scrip scripture soul spirit St Paul taught things thought tion tithes true truth tyranny tyrant virtue Waldenses whenas wherein whereof whole wisdom wise words worse
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Página 57 - 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, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Página 33 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 21 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 343 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Página 342 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Página 281 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Página 34 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Página vi - 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 deny'd to doe it.
Página 61 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst after knowledge and understanding which God hath stirred up in this city.
Página 58 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.