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John Milton's Commonplace Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1876

Extract

In malo morali potest multum esse admistum boni, idque arte singulari; nemo venenum temperat felle et hellebore sed conditis pulmentis et bene saporatis: ita diabolus letale quod conficit rebus dei gratissimis imbuit, etc. Tertull: de spectaculis, p. 102, edit. Rigalt.

Cur permittit deus malum ? ut ratio virtuti constare possit. virtus enim malo arguitur, illustratur, exercetur, quemadmodum disserit Lactantius, l. 5, c. 1, ut haberet ratio et prudentia in quo se exerceret, eligendo bona, fugiendo mala, Lactan. de ira dei, c. 13, quamvis et hæc non satisfaciunt.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1876

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References

page 12 note a Or 12: much blotted.

page 15 note a This title is not in the volume.

page 16 note a The first four paragraphs are in small writing.

page 17 note a Non regi solum sed cnivis. Baro ab Herber. de Masch. (These words are in the margin.)

page 22 note a In the margin—granted also and confirmed by charter.—Holinsh. 181 and 183. Speed, p. 447, Rich. I. See Speed at his Crowning of K. John, vid. Subditus.

page 23 note a The word truce, seems omitted.

page 26 note a Rex is at the head of the page.

page 28 note a This quotation from Aristotle is in the margin.

page 28 note b These two Articles are not in the body of the Yolume or in the table at the end.

page 28 note c The last five words are in the margin.

page 39 note a This entry is also in p. 193 of the MS. but is there cancelled.

page 41 note a Milton has substituted 403 for 131.

page 45 note a A mistake in the print for 228.

page 48 note a These words are in the margin.

page 48 note b This clearly refers to another Commonplace Book.

page 54 note a This word is doubtful. It may be transacta.

page 55 note a These titles are not in the volume.

page 55 note b A misprint in the printed volume; it should be p. 394.