Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineB. Perkins, 1828 - 116 páginas |
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... wisdom , his insight into the springs of human action , and the solemn pathos which occasionally pervades his descriptions of life and his references to his own history , command our willing admiration . That he wanted enthusiasm and ...
... wisdom , his insight into the springs of human action , and the solemn pathos which occasionally pervades his descriptions of life and his references to his own history , command our willing admiration . That he wanted enthusiasm and ...
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... is not the first Christian , who has thought to render the Supreme Being more interesting by giving him human shape . We doubt the wisdom of this expedient . To spiritualize our conceptions of him , seems to us the 70 70 MILTON .
... is not the first Christian , who has thought to render the Supreme Being more interesting by giving him human shape . We doubt the wisdom of this expedient . To spiritualize our conceptions of him , seems to us the 70 70 MILTON .
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... wisdom of its founder . We believe , that , with the diffusion of liberal views , the ques- tion will arise , whether our religion cannot be taught and administered in methods and forms more adapted , than those which now prevail , to ...
... wisdom of its founder . We believe , that , with the diffusion of liberal views , the ques- tion will arise , whether our religion cannot be taught and administered in methods and forms more adapted , than those which now prevail , to ...
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... of his predecessors . He believed justly , that all the periods and gen- erations of the human family , are bound to- gether by a sublime connexion , and that the wisdom of each age is chiefly a derivation from all 10 * MILTON . 113.
... of his predecessors . He believed justly , that all the periods and gen- erations of the human family , are bound to- gether by a sublime connexion , and that the wisdom of each age is chiefly a derivation from all 10 * MILTON . 113.
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... wisdom of each age is chiefly a derivation from all preceding ages , not excepting the most ancient , just as a noble stream , through its whole extent and in its widest overflow- ings , still holds communication with its infant springs ...
... wisdom of each age is chiefly a derivation from all preceding ages , not excepting the most ancient , just as a noble stream , through its whole extent and in its widest overflow- ings , still holds communication with its infant springs ...
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admiration amidst Anti-trinitarian apostles beauty believe bound breathes character chiefly Chris Christ Christian Doctrine Comus consciousness corrupted creed deep delight divine earth ence energy ergies eternity evil exalt faith feeling free agency freedom fulness genius gifted give God's grandeur happiness heaven hell higher Holy Spirit hope human mind human nature ical imagination immortal intel intellectual intellectual liberty JOHN MILTON Johnson Judaism kindles lected liberty light lived lofty Lord's supper magnanimity man's mankind matter minister moral ness never noble objects obscured opinions Osiris Paradise Paradise Lost particular church passages passions physi poet poetical poetry polygamy prose writings readers refined Reformation religion remarks reverence Satan scripture seems solemn soul speak splendor style sublime sublimest supreme tenderness Testament theology things thou thought tianity tion topic Treatise on Christian true truth ture universal views virtue whole wholly wisdom worship youthful
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Página 87 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Página 44 - ... to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Página 20 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Página 45 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 27 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 84 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Página 55 - ... in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty...
Página 42 - For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands ; much better would it like him doubtless to be the messenger of gladness and contentment, which is his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness.
Página 59 - 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. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Página 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...