The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page 107
... yourself ridiculous , in calling it the king's defence ; for you having fold it , it is no longer yours , but the king's indeed : who bought it at the price of a hundred jacobuffes , a great fum for a poor king to difburfe . I know very ...
... yourself ridiculous , in calling it the king's defence ; for you having fold it , it is no longer yours , but the king's indeed : who bought it at the price of a hundred jacobuffes , a great fum for a poor king to difburfe . I know very ...
Page 113
... yourself ? It is notoriously known , that when both houfes of parliament , being extremely defirous to reform the church of England by the pattern of our reformed churches , had refolved to abolith epifcopacy , the king firft interpofed ...
... yourself ? It is notoriously known , that when both houfes of parliament , being extremely defirous to reform the church of England by the pattern of our reformed churches , had refolved to abolith epifcopacy , the king firft interpofed ...
Page 114
... yourself very ridiculous ; for that council is not the fupreme council , as you dream it is , but appointed by authority of parliament , for a certain time only ; and confifting of forty perfons , for the moft part members of parliament ...
... yourself very ridiculous ; for that council is not the fupreme council , as you dream it is , but appointed by authority of parliament , for a certain time only ; and confifting of forty perfons , for the moft part members of parliament ...
Page 117
... yourself . Go on then , undertake the king's defence at the encouragement , and by the affiftance of the Irish . You take care , and fo you might well , left any fhould imagine , that you were about to bereave Cicero or Demofthenes of ...
... yourself . Go on then , undertake the king's defence at the encouragement , and by the affiftance of the Irish . You take care , and fo you might well , left any fhould imagine , that you were about to bereave Cicero or Demofthenes of ...
Page 119
... yourself ( for no body elfe has fo of you ) as to imagine that you are able to speak well upon any fubject , who can neither play the part of an orator , nor an hiftorian , nor exprefs yourself in a ftyle that would not be ridiculous ...
... yourself ( for no body elfe has fo of you ) as to imagine that you are able to speak well upon any fubject , who can neither play the part of an orator , nor an hiftorian , nor exprefs yourself in a ftyle that would not be ridiculous ...
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Page 408 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 362 - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple ? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.
Page 435 - And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee ; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Page 173 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
Page 339 - For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in him ; which is the head of all principality and power...
Page 371 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 157 - I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, "Give me a king and princes?" I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
Page 363 - And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give; for the labourer is worthy of his hire ; Go not from house to house.
Page 317 - A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes ; showing that it is not lawful for any Power on Earth to compel in matters of Religion.
Page 387 - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.