 | Thomas M'Crie - 1840 - 552 pages
...the dictate of a divine spirit ?) Yet not suiting with every low decrepit humour of their own, (hough it were Knox himself, the reformer of a kingdom, that...the sense of that great man shall to all posterity he lost for the fearfulnesse, or the pie•umptuous rashneue of a perfunctory licenser. And to what... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit?) yet not suiting with every low decrepit humour of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer...great man shall to all posterity be lost, for the fearfulness, or the presumptuous rashness of a perfunctory licenser. And to what an author this violence... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit?) yet not suiting with every low decrepit humour of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer...great man shall to all posterity be lost, for the fearfulness, or the presumptuous rashness of a perfunclory licenser. And to what an author this violenciPEath... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1846 - 524 pages
...a divine spirit ?) Yet not suiting with every low decrepit humour of their own, though it were K^ox himself, the reformer of a kingdom, that spake it...that great man shall to all posterity be lost for the fearfutness, or the presumptuous ra-shnesse of a perfunctory licenser. And to what an author this violence... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - 530 pages
...under a heavy penalty. Knox, whom Milton calls ' the Reformer of a Kingdom,' was also curtailed ; and * the sense of that great man shall, to all posterity, be lost for the fear fulness, or the presumptuous rashness of a perfunctory licenser.1 The regular establishment of... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1847 - 542 pages
...whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit?) yet not suiting with every low decrepit humour of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer...great man shall to all posterity be lost, for the fearfulness, or the presumptuous rashness of a perfunctory licenser. And to what an author this violence... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1847 - 560 pages
...with every low deerepit humour of their own. though it were Knox himselfs the reformer of a kingdoms that spake it. they will not pardon him their dash : the sense ot that great man shall to all posterity be lost for the fearfuInesses or the presumptuous rashnesse... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 pages
...whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit?) yet, not suiting with every low decrepit humour of their own, though it were Knox himself, the reformer...great man shall to all posterity be lost, for the fearfulness, or the presumptuous rashness of a perfunctory licenser. And to what an author this violence... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1855 - 530 pages
...whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit?) yet, not suiting with every low decrepit humour of their own, though it were KNOX himself, the reformer...that great man shall to all posterity be lost for the fearfulness, or the presumptuous rashness of a prefunctory licenser. And to what an author this violence... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 pages
...under a heavy penalty. Knox, whom Milton calls " the Reformer of a Kingdom," was also curtailed ; and " the sense of that great man shall, to all posterity, be lost for the fearfulness or the presumptuous rashness of a perfunctory licenser." The regular establishment of licensers... | |
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... if there be found in his book one sentence of a venturous edge, uttered in the height of zeal, and who knows whether it might not be the dictate of a divine spirit, yet not suiting with every low decrepit humor of their own, though it were Knox himself,... 
