John Milton, EnglishmanGollancz, 1950 - 314 pages |
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Page 56
... knowledge is alto- gether sterile and joyless . For who can contemplate and examine seriously the ideal form of things , human and divine , of which nothing surely can be known , unless he has a mind saturated and perfected by knowledge ...
... knowledge is alto- gether sterile and joyless . For who can contemplate and examine seriously the ideal form of things , human and divine , of which nothing surely can be known , unless he has a mind saturated and perfected by knowledge ...
Page 148
... knowledge to love and be like Him . This knowledge is to be won by " orderly conning over the lower and visible creature . ” Well enough . But in Milton's assumption the patterns all exist , whether in Scripture or in the Greek and ...
... knowledge to love and be like Him . This knowledge is to be won by " orderly conning over the lower and visible creature . ” Well enough . But in Milton's assumption the patterns all exist , whether in Scripture or in the Greek and ...
Page 232
... knowledge of physics , chemistry , astronomy naturally furnishes him abundance of material . There is a full discussion of the Copernican versus the Ptolomaic hypothesis in Book VIII . He alludes with precise knowledge to Galileo's ...
... knowledge of physics , chemistry , astronomy naturally furnishes him abundance of material . There is a full discussion of the Copernican versus the Ptolomaic hypothesis in Book VIII . He alludes with precise knowledge to Galileo's ...
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