 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...and devout men, as they daily and folemnly exprefs their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin fome new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itfelf ; what does he then but reveal himfelf to his fervants, and as his manner is, firft to his Englifhmen... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 pages
...and devout men, as they daily and folemnly exprefs their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin fome new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itfelf ; what does he then but reveal himfelf to his fervants, and as his manner is, firft to his Englifhmen... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...and devout men, as they daily and folemnly exprefs their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin fome new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of Reformation itfelf ; what does he then but reveal himfclf to his fervants, and, as his manner is, firft, to his... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, ev'n to the reforming of Reformation it self: what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and, as his manner is, first to his English-men7 ? I say as his manner is, first to us, * With violence demean'd the matter.] ie managed... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming...say as his manner is, first to us, though we mark riot the method of his counsels, and are unworthy. Behold now this vast city ; a city of refuge, the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 pages
...commotion in England, which Milton draws in his ' Areopagitica,' is truly appalling. ' Behold,' says he, ' this vast city, a city of "refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with its protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pages
...draws a frightful picture of the state of society at that day in the Areopagitica. " Behold (he says) this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with its protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...before she threw down the gauntlet to her own sons, or marshalled her forces for the open field. " Behold now this vast city, — a city of refuge, —...mansion-house of liberty, — encompassed and surrounded with God's protection : the shop of war hath not there more hammers and anvils working to fashion out the... | |
 | 1837 - 674 pages
...liberty of unlicensed printing. Hearken to the peal of eloquence which swells through this sentence : — "Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the...mansion-house " of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with God's protection : the shop of " war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out... | |
 | 1841 - 832 pages
...Never was the old proverb less true— " Inter Martis strepitus, silent musae." "Behold," says Milton, "this vast city : a city of refuge — the mansionhouse of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with God's protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the... | |
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Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of Reformation... 
