 | American Institute of Instruction - 1877 - 216 sider
...same is true of a commonwealth), "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 ye shall find them to a whole State."... | |
 | Will Converse Wood - 1877 - 404 sider
...Milton says, " A nation ought to be like some huge [Christian] personage, — one mighty growth or stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." Of the two, indeed, the State is more compact as an organism than the Church : so erroneous is the... | |
 | William Dodge Herrick - 1878 - 612 sider
...with Milton that, " a nation ought to be as but 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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1878 - 970 sider
...same is true of a commonwealth), "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 ye shall find them to a whole State."... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1878 - 534 sider
...authority." His conception of the nation as a whole is pointedly Miltonic. "A commonwealth ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man." Woe betide the commonwealth if the Church is denied freedom and self-government. " Must Church-government,... | |
 | James Waylen - 1880 - 488 sider
...legislator's notice. Milton with the daring of youth had once said, " a commonwealth ought to be but as one huge christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man." The aspiration was poetic, it was even prophetic and biblical, but as yet it was far enough out of... | |
 | 1888 - 738 sider
...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 the time and pains given to mathematics or to mental or moral philosopy. Perhaps... | |
 | 1881 - 552 sider
...satisfied. For as Milton, its great poet and prophet, has fitly said, 'A commonwealth ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and...the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole State.' * The whole life, public and private, penetrated... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1881 - 588 sider
...satisfied. For as Milton, its great poet and prophet, has fitly said, ' A commonwealth ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and...the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole State.' * The whole life, public and private, penetrated... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1882 - 352 sider
...satisfied. For as Milton, its great poet and prophet, has fitly said, " A Commonwealth ought to' be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and...the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole State." * The whole life, public and private, penetrated... | |
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Alas, sir ! a commonwealth ought to be but as one huge christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body... 
