 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...  The Christian Society - Stranica 107napisao/la George Davis Herron - 1894 - Broj stranica: 158Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | United States. Office of Education - 1884 - Broj stranica: 750
...founder and supporter of public educational institutions. "A nation," said John Milton, "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 happiness to... | |
 | John Watson - 1905 - Broj stranica: 384
...spiritual sovereign of the universe is the nation itself," and Milton has nobly conceived the State " as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man." It has been a misfortune that the State has not had its due place in our mind, and it would be a good... | |
 | William Jewett Tucker - 1909 - Broj stranica: 376
...the state is not only to live but to live nobly." Puritanism affirmed through Milton that a "nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." But the practical idea of a conscience in the state, organized... | |
 | Robert Fulton Cutting - 1912 - Broj stranica: 258
...the term "religious." It acknowledges the truth of Milton's characterization of government: "A nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth, the stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body. For, look, — what ground and... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - Broj stranica: 668
...likeness to God, which in one word we call Godliness." " Alas, sir," he says again, " 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." Here consists the basis of... | |
 | 1914 - Broj stranica: 588
...love, and peace which exalts and ennobles, thus making the towns into what Milton called the state, "one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man." So it will proceed with an ever increasing expansiveness to cover and govern the diverse relationships... | |
 | H. D. Roberts - 1914 - Broj stranica: 266
...nation,' said John Milton in his Preface to ' The Reformation in England,' Book II, ' ought to be 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... | |
 | William Herbert Perry Faunce - 1914 - Broj stranica: 362
...Politics, Book I, Ch. II. phrase of John Milton — himself a stanch individualist : " The state is one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man." From that standpoint a state, or any kind of society, is vastly more than an aggregation of atoms,... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1914 - Broj stranica: 264
...giving back what it has devoured." 1 "A Commonwealth," continued Milton in the treatise just cited, "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." "If there be any one that makes... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - Broj stranica: 524
...sir!" exclaimed Milton, suddenly grasping this whole subject as with divine force, "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... | |
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