 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...spirit." — (" Arseopagitica.") " Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrive by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion....to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." " There is not... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 130 pages
...a step-dame to Truth; and first by disinabling us to the maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our Faith and...exercise as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression they... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrive by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion....to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may ~be a... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...step25 dame to Truth : and first by disinabling us to the maintenance of what is known already: Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...exercise as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compar'd in Scripture to a 30 streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression,... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...our own axes and coulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licensing forges? .... Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...a streaming fountain ; if her waters / flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicke^i into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. Aman may be a... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...axes and coulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licensing forges ? . . . . O Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...Reformation sought no more, but to make xoom for others into their seats under another name, the Well a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrive by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion....to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual pro gression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - 1880 - 806 pages
...it in words written more than two hundred years ago, " Well knows he who uses to consider that our knowledge thrives by exercise as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth has been compared to a streaming fountain: if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they... | |
 | Walter Lewin - 1880 - 368 pages
...reminds us of a very noteworthy passage in the Areopagitica, where Milton says— " Truth is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression, they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
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Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy... 
