The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton

H. Hooker, 1845

Contents

• BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION: 1
• Of Prelatical Episcopacy and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical: 34
• The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty In two Books: 45
• Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus: 88
• An Apology for Smectymnuus: 121
• Of Education to Master Samuel Hartlib: 158
• AREOPAGITICA a Speech for the liberty of unlicensed Printing to the Parlia: 166
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce restored to the good of both Sexes from: 192
• written to Edward: 256
• Expositions upon the four chief Places in Scripture which: 283
• A Reply to a nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Disci: 356
• proving that it is lawful and hath been: 374
• Observations on the Articles of Peace between James Earl of Ormond for King: 399
• in answer to a Book entitled Eikon Basilike the Portraiture: 437

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Page 168 - 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.

Page 174 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...

Page 159 - 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 159 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.

Page 341 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Page 185 - 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.

Page 322 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Page xii - 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 DENIED TO DO IT.

Page viii - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

Page 320 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1; The Prose Works of John Milton, Rufus Wilmot Griswold; Volume 1 of The Prose Works of John Milton: With an Introductory Review, Rufus Wilmot Griswold
• Author: John Milton
• Editor: Rufus Wilmot Griswold
• Publisher: H. Hooker, 1845
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Oct 24, 2007