Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England for the Liberty of Unlicensed PrintingRalph Holland & Company, 1905 - 100 pages |
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... appear " purple patches . " The fire of poetic genius was only smouldering , for surely such a passage as the eulogy of England in the Areopagitica is poetry bursting the chain of prose : — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and ...
... appear " purple patches . " The fire of poetic genius was only smouldering , for surely such a passage as the eulogy of England in the Areopagitica is poetry bursting the chain of prose : — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and ...
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... appear to have been remarkable at first . The Long Parliament continued sternly on its course , and , in 1647 , carried matters a stage further by passing its Ordinance for the Suppression of Plays and Interludes . The Independents ...
... appear to have been remarkable at first . The Long Parliament continued sternly on its course , and , in 1647 , carried matters a stage further by passing its Ordinance for the Suppression of Plays and Interludes . The Independents ...
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... appear to have been more that of an editor than of a licenser . Thus , with greater or less severity , the licensing of the press was carried out . The Restoration reintroduced the methods of the Star Chamber , and an act was passed in ...
... appear to have been more that of an editor than of a licenser . Thus , with greater or less severity , the licensing of the press was carried out . The Restoration reintroduced the methods of the Star Chamber , and an act was passed in ...
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... appear on the book . 11 and 12. English books not to be printed on the Continent . 15. Twenty printing presses to be allowed , in addition to His Majesty's Press and the University Presses . 18. Reprinted works to be re - licensed . 24 ...
... appear on the book . 11 and 12. English books not to be printed on the Continent . 15. Twenty printing presses to be allowed , in addition to His Majesty's Press and the University Presses . 18. Reprinted works to be re - licensed . 24 ...
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... appear much less frequently than in his other prose works , and that , when the sentences are freed from their entanglements , the language is majestic and sonorous , rising at times to the eloquent imagery of the poet , while the ...
... appear much less frequently than in his other prose works , and that , when the sentences are freed from their entanglements , the language is majestic and sonorous , rising at times to the eloquent imagery of the poet , while the ...
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Areopagitica Areopagus arguments Aristophanes Athens banished Bishop called Cato censure Christian Church Cicero civil clergy Commonwealth controversy Council of Trent Court of High Dionysius doctrine Emperor England Epicurus evil famous forbid Greek hath heretical High Commission Historical Notes HOLT WHITE honour Huss Imprimatur Irenĉus Isokrates Jerome judgment Julian the Apostate knowledge labours language Latin Laud learning libellous liberty licensing London Long Parliament Lords and Commons matter means ment Milton Milton's spelling opinion orator Ordinance pamphlets Plato Plautus poet Pope praise prelates Presbyter prohibited prose Protagoras published Puritan reason rebec reference Reformation religion Roman Rome sects and schisms Smectymnuus Socrates Spanish Inquisition Star Chamber Star Chamber Decree style suppress taught things thought tion Tractate Truth twelve tables Typhon Unlicensed Printing virtue whenas whereof Wicklef wisdom word writ writing written wrote
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Page 30 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil; that is to say, of knowing good by evil.
Page 9 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book.
Page 68 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his mani>er is, first to his Englishmen...
Page 9 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Page 30 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 65 - We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 10 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 74 - We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.