 | 1953 - 1224 pagine
...the 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... | |
 | 1900 - 490 pagine
...it is true, but is not at all to gain a moral character. "A nation," said John Milton, "ought to be as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth...body; for look, what the ground and causes are of happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole state." There are many people who will... | |
 | Todd Wayne Butler - 2008 - 218 pagine
...politician. Alas Sir! a Commonwelth 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 (1.572) Here the lifeless Colossus of Animadversions becomes a soon-to-be broken state, one best remodeled... | |
 | 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 pagine
...government depends upon the intelligence and virtue of the people. "A nation," says Milton, " ought to be as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth...causes are of single happiness to one man, the same you shall find them to a whole State." An able writer, — none too friendly to Christianity, — in... | |
 | Catholic University of America - 1897 - 524 pagine
...different ages, who have been masters of political science, repeat this conception. Milton recorded that a "Nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage,...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... | |
 | 1886 - 456 pagine
...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." But the Constitution... | |
 | 1859 - 836 pagine
...John Milton said the Comonwealth " ought to be but one huge Christian personage, oue mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." Our idea differs from this graud but incomplete conception. We rather think the Commonwealth should... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1871 - 468 pagine
...English Republicau, 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,... | |
 | 1915 - 844 pagine
...of what Milton says a commonwealth should be, "one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." Men forgot that the English race came once upon a time to Britain and made it England. They were preparing... | |
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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... 
