Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of Unlicensed PrintingR. Hunter, successor to Mr. Johnson ... and Richard Steevens, 1819 - 311 pages |
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Page x
... perhaps by the hand of Socrates , would in the opinion of Prynne atone for the original sin of a stage- play . To talk of the ethics of the Stage to him or to his followers was lost labour . In fact , two Ordinances were passed in 1647 ...
... perhaps by the hand of Socrates , would in the opinion of Prynne atone for the original sin of a stage- play . To talk of the ethics of the Stage to him or to his followers was lost labour . In fact , two Ordinances were passed in 1647 ...
Page xvii
... perhaps leave something so written to after- " times , as they should not willingly let it " die * " Sufficient has been said in these preceding remarks to satisfy all who read them , that in taking on him for the Speech before us ...
... perhaps leave something so written to after- " times , as they should not willingly let it " die * " Sufficient has been said in these preceding remarks to satisfy all who read them , that in taking on him for the Speech before us ...
Page xxv
... perhaps be received as a funda- mental axiom in this science , that no well- policied State can tolerate the confusion of the legislative with the judicial or executive functions . With our illustrious line of coun- trymen , to whose ...
... perhaps be received as a funda- mental axiom in this science , that no well- policied State can tolerate the confusion of the legislative with the judicial or executive functions . With our illustrious line of coun- trymen , to whose ...
Page xxxii
... perhaps " also here I might have ended nameless , but that the address " of these lines chiefly to the Parlament of England might " have seem'd ingrateful not to acknowledge by whose re- " ligious Care , unwearied Watchfulness ...
... perhaps " also here I might have ended nameless , but that the address " of these lines chiefly to the Parlament of England might " have seem'd ingrateful not to acknowledge by whose re- " ligious Care , unwearied Watchfulness ...
Page xlvii
... Perhaps it is not too much to say , that they might be considered as a medium through which a Reader whose acquirements in the antient Languages have not extended beyond the Latin , might gain no very inadequate idea of the pointed in ...
... Perhaps it is not too much to say , that they might be considered as a medium through which a Reader whose acquirements in the antient Languages have not extended beyond the Latin , might gain no very inadequate idea of the pointed in ...
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antient AREOPAGITICA Areopagus argument Aristophanes Athens atque authority Authour autres Ben Jonson better bien Bishop Books c'est cause censure Church Cicero civil common Court Discourse divine Doctrine doit edit Eloquence England English Epicurus être Euripides Evill faut favour Freedom Government Greece Greek hath Hist hommes honour Imprimatur Isocrates jamais Johnson Knowlege l'on la presse labour language Latin Laws Learning Libel Liberty Licencing livres Lord Lost Maseres means ment mihi MILTON mind Ministers n'est Nation never opinion Oration Pamphlet Paradise Lost Parliament Parliament of England passage peuple peut Plato Plautus Poems Poet Poetry praise Prelats Press printed prose qu'elle qu'il qu'on quæ quod racter Reason Reformation Religion remark Roman Rome s'il sans elle sects sense Shakspeare Smectymnuus Sophron Speech spirit things thought tion tout Tract Truth vérité verse Vertue vindication word writing καὶ
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Page 145 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 146 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 134 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page vi - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 78 - Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love, Where only what they needs must do appeared, Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason (reason also is choice) Useless and vain, of freedom both despoiled, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me...
Page 154 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks...
Page xvii - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 99 - Arch-Angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
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 278 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.