Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and AreopagiticaVerlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 - 381 pages |
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... the in- citement of great good to this Iland . And , as I hear , you have obtain'd the fame repute with men of moft approved wisdom , and fome of highest authority among among us . Not to mention the learned Gorrefpondence which [ 162 ]
... the in- citement of great good to this Iland . And , as I hear , you have obtain'd the fame repute with men of moft approved wisdom , and fome of highest authority among among us . Not to mention the learned Gorrefpondence which [ 162 ]
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... Wisdom , Knowledge , Virtue , and Science ? Is it merely indeed that we may eat , drink , fleep , fing , and dance , with fecurity , that we choose gover- nours , fubject ourselves to their admi- niftration , and pay taxes ? Take away ...
... Wisdom , Knowledge , Virtue , and Science ? Is it merely indeed that we may eat , drink , fleep , fing , and dance , with fecurity , that we choose gover- nours , fubject ourselves to their admi- niftration , and pay taxes ? Take away ...
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... wisdom and letters we ow that we are not yet Gothes and Jut- landers , I could name him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parlament of Athens , that perfwades them to change the forme of Democraty which was then ...
... wisdom and letters we ow that we are not yet Gothes and Jut- landers , I could name him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parlament of Athens , that perfwades them to change the forme of Democraty which was then ...
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... wisdom of a State . To fequefter out of the world into Atlantick and Eutopian polities , which never can be drawn into ufe , will not mend our condition ; but to ordain wifely as in this world of evill , in the mid'ft whereof GOD hath ...
... wisdom of a State . To fequefter out of the world into Atlantick and Eutopian polities , which never can be drawn into ufe , will not mend our condition ; but to ordain wifely as in this world of evill , in the mid'ft whereof GOD hath ...
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... fever- eft difcipline that can be exercis'd in any hermitage , ye cannot make them chafte , that came not thither fo : fuch great care and wisdom is requir'd to the right ma- managing of this point . Suppose we could expell fin [ 286 ]
... fever- eft difcipline that can be exercis'd in any hermitage , ye cannot make them chafte , that came not thither fo : fuch great care and wisdom is requir'd to the right ma- managing of this point . Suppose we could expell fin [ 286 ]
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Page 265 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Page 266 - 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.
Page 172 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 295 - I lastly proceed from the no good it can do to the manifest hurt it causes, in being first the greatest discouragement and affront that can be offered to learning and to learned men.
Page 235 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
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Page 333 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 293 - ... legible, whereof three pages would not down at any time in the fairest print, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time, and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure.
Page 339 - I doubt not, if some great and worthy stranger should come among us, wise to discern the mould and temper of a people, and how to govern it, observing the high hopes and aims, the diligent alacrity of our extended thoughts and reasonings in the pursuance of truth and freedom, but that he would cry out as...