John Milton Quotes
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Samuel Simmons, 1667, p. 83.
In addition to the immense secular powers that can be used to obtain obedience, in a theocracy, there is the additional weapon of damnation. See {628182} for his use of some of the others.
If American fighting men were not killed in the war, they returned to the United States at Hoboken, New Jersey where the troop ships debarked. If the solder didn’t return through Hoboken the assumption was his destination was one of the other two alternatives. It is believed that Cook did not originate the phrase which had circulated in the oral military scuttlebutt of the day. He was the first to write it.
John Milton was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious shifts and political instability, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.
