 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 pagine
...the substance. 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 ; for look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole state."... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1870 - 554 pagine
...commonwealth," says Milton, " 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. For look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole state... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1886 - 988 pagine
...public duty. Like Milton, he held that " the commonwealth ought to be but as one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." Like Lamennais also, above all things religious, he insisted on the brotherhood of nations, on the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1871 - 482 pagine
...Republican, John Milton, " 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." l Not through any worldly trinmphs, not through the vaults of State Street, the spindles of Lowell,... | |
 | 1872 - 236 pagine
...created in the sphere of moral law, and therefore both moral and accountable." "A nation," says Milton, "ought to be but as one huge Christian personage,...honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." What is government but a system of laws? But what is law? To be binding, law must be founded injustice,... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pagine
...politician. 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 ; for, look : what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole State."... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 656 pagine
...English Republican, John Milton, '-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." Not through any worldly triumphs, not through the vaults of State street, the spindles of Lowell, or... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pagine
...true great ness? ! ''A state 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! " But Bacon's notions of morality and duty in some other respects never rose to the Christian standard.... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pagine
...treat ness I "A elate might to be out aa one huee Christian personage. onemii:liiv growth and xtatnre of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body!" But Bacon's notions of morality and duty in some oih'T respects never ro«e to the Christian standard.—... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 474 pagine
...English Republican, John Milton, " 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." 1 Not through any worldly triumphs, not through the vaults of State Street, the spindles of Lowell,... | |
| |
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... 
