 ... if it come to prohibiting, there is not aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself: whose first appearance to our eyes, bleared and dimmed with prejudice and custom, is more unsightly and unplausible v than many errors ; even as the person...  New Moral World - Page 11741969Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...wholesome, rnor* prudent, and more christian, that many he tolerated rather than all compelled. » * * What do they tell us vainly of new opinions, when this very opinion of theirs, that none. must he heard hut whom they like is the worst and newest opinion of all others ; and is the chief cause... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...implaufible than many errours ; even as the pcrfon rs of many a great man flight and contemptible to fee-to. .And what do they tell us vainly of new opinions, when this very opinion of their?, that wone muft be heard but whom they like, is the worft and neweft opinion of all others;... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...blear'd and dimin'd with prejudice and custom, is more unsightly and unplausible then many errors ; ev'n as the person is of many a great man slight and contemptible to see to6. And what doe they tell us vainly of new opinions, when this very opinion of theirs, that none... | |
 | 1824 - 342 pages
...appearance to our eyes, bleared and dimmed with prejudice and custom, is more unsightly and iinplausible than many errors; even as the person is of many a great man slight and contemptible to see to." And when truth is acknowledged and permitted to pass, is it not humbled and disgraced by the permission?... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 760 pages
...in company, to sit in sullen silence, or to keep a gloomy and watchful rethink, it be not feigned ? And what do they tell us vainly of new opinions, when...like, is the worst and newest opinion of all others ? This is not the liberty which we could hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the state ; that... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1866 - 670 pages
...unplausible than many errors ; even as" — he adds, and this simile occasions the quotation — " even as the person is of many a great man slight and contemptible to see."f One of the great Corneille's biographers declares that when first he saw that grand homme, he... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...appearance to our eyes, bleared and dimmed with prejudice and custom, is more unsightly and unplausible than many errors ; even as the person is of many a...man slight and contemptible to see to. And ^what do the^ tell us yjrinjy of new opinions, when this very opinion of theirs, that.jDOfte4nust BeTieard but... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...many errors, ev'n as the perfon is of many a great man flight and contemptible to fee to. And what doe they tell us vainly of new opinions, when this very opinion of theirs, that none muft be heard, but whom they like, is the worft and neweft opinion of all others ; and is the chief... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...appearance to our eyes, bleared and dimmed with prejudice and custom, is more unsightly and unplausible than many errors ; even as the person is of many a great man slight and contemptible to see to When God shakes a kingdom, with strong and healthful commotions, to a general reforming, it is not... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...appearance to our eyes, bleared and dimmed with prejudice and custom, is more unsightly and unplausible than many errors; even as the person is of many a great man slight and contemptible to see to When God shakes a kingdom, with strong and healthful commotions, to a general reforming, it is not... | |
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