| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1883 - 592 sider
...which made the finest inspiration of Puritanism : — "A commonwealth," he says, " ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and...of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as his body." And, again, of the Puritan colonies across the sea : — " What numbers of faithful and... | |
| 1915 - 880 sider
...conception of the state: 'A nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body, for look, what the ground and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to be to a whole... | |
| Herbert Wallace Schneider - 1946 - 620 sider
...conception. Milton says, "A nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body, for look, what the ground and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole state."... | |
| Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1882 - 1016 sider
...people. "A nation," says Milton, " ought to be as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body> for look what the ground and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same you shall find them to a whole State."... | |
| 1886 - 456 sider
...statesman, said : "A nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or statue of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body, for look, what the ground and cause are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole State."... | |
| 1859 - 836 sider
...the Commonweakh. John Milton said the Comonwealth " ought to be but one huge Christian personage, oue of his son." This remarkable transaction is twice mentioned in the New Testament, an Our idea differs from this graud but incomplete conception. We rather think the Commonwealth should... | |
| Catholic University of America - 1897 - 524 sider
...Milton recorded that a "Nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." And Shakespeare — " TluTe is a myslcry — with whom relation Hnst never meddled— in the sonl of... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1888 - 842 sider
...be secured by every student. There is pressing need of this. "A state," says Milton, "ought to be as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man." Few would diminish tlie time and pains given to mathematics or to mental or moral philosophy. Perhaps... | |
| 1922 - 506 sider
...unto the measure of the stature of the fulness (tr\^p<afi,a) of Christ." With this compare Milton's " One huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man." Christ is the Creator of this " new man," and in the " all," which consists of apostles, prophets,... | |
| Robert Fulton Cutting - 1912 - 264 sider
...characterization of government: "A nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth, the stature of an , honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in v body. For, look, — what ground and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same he shall... | |
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