 | James Handasyd Perkins - 1851 - 540 pages
...democracy is impossible on any other than Christian principles. " We boast our light," says Milton, " but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness." Let us, in this favored land, beware how we look upon the sun of freedom, for if we look not wisely,... | |
 | William Innes - 1852 - 160 pages
...these licencing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred Saint." To this splendid passage from our great poet I add another from one of the most eloquent writers of... | |
 | 1852 - 610 pages
...will be necessary to say to the supreme Judge, either with confusion or with hope, "It is I myself!" WE boast our light ; but, if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it strikes us into darkness. The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 pages
...these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking — that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint." (§ 61.) — ED. is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint. The rest of the piece is devoted to an eloquent appeal to the Parliament, not by the imposition of... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint. As this licensing is a particular disesteem of every knowing person alive, and most injurious to the... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint. As this licensing is a particular disesteem of every knowing person alive, and most injurious to the... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies...it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH. Ill planets that are oft combust,* and those stars of brightest magnitude, that... | |
 | William Spalding - 1862 - 438 pages
...oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. ****** We boast our light: but, if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Who <Skn discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1862 - 326 pages
...dead ten years. 3 See Canto iv. 1—12. 3 The seven Graces and the Car were at Dante's left hand. 4 "We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness." — MILTON'S Areopagitica. Prose Works, p. 115, col. 1. Upon the right hand side there met my gaze... | |
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... and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming ; He shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection. Suffer not these licensing prohibitions to stand at every... 
