 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...  Conversations at Cambridge - Page 142by Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 299 pagesFull view - About this book
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1893 - 862 pages
...one conception in religion and the state, and that is the highest of man." Milton says : " A nation 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 ground and causes are of single happiness... | |
 | George Davis Herron - 1894 - 170 pages
...people must be righteous before the state can be righteous, i If we agree with Milton that the state " ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man," then the Christian state must be the offspring of a Christian people.... | |
 | 1913 - 752 pages
...understands that the State has a soul, and appreciates John Milton's noble affirmation 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 as virtue.' "I cherish the hope and belief that some... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1895 - 76 pages
...which they are called upon to make? Shall we show to the world the spectacle of a nation acting as "a huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact of virtue as of body?" This is the solemn choice that is set before us. Before us,... | |
 | George Sherwood Dickerman - 1897 - 674 pages
...B.» Allyn, b. Aug. 6, 1858, d. Feb. 17, 1859. CHAPTER VII. EARLY DAYS IN NEW HAVEN. "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." — John Milton. Twenty years had passed since the planting... | |
 | 1898 - 444 pages
...upon the individual. This was finely expressed by Milton when he said that "a nation was nothing but one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body." Every nation has its character which results from its history,... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1900 - 364 pages
...commonwealth assuredly could not err on the side of laxity. "Alas, sir!" he writes, "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." Wisdom, virtue, magnanimity, likeness to God, enjoin and require... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 398 pages
...wrong and falsehood. You may make it fulfil the idea of John Milton, when he said that "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 " ; l or you may let it shrink into the ignoble form of a pretender,... | |
 | 1902 - 484 pages
...towards another, Milton's theory would universally be recognized as correct: " Ah, 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 the special business of a warrior, perhaps we should accept... | |
 | 1902 - 680 pages
...dominions in the heavens, but statesman enough and Republican enough to write thus: "A nation ought to be as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man." So saw, also, and so said Edmund Burke, more than a royal advocate or partisan opportunist, when he... | |
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