Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica |
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Milton's epifcopalian opponents reproached him as a diffolute rake ; and , among other irregularities , mentioned his frequenting the theatres , which they inferred from his speaking of vizzards and false beards .
Milton's epifcopalian opponents reproached him as a diffolute rake ; and , among other irregularities , mentioned his frequenting the theatres , which they inferred from his speaking of vizzards and false beards .
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Or whether they be to speak in Parlament or counfell , honour and attention would be waiting on their lips . There would then alfo appear in pulpits other visages , other geftures , and stuffe otherwise wrought then what we now fit ...
Or whether they be to speak in Parlament or counfell , honour and attention would be waiting on their lips . There would then alfo appear in pulpits other visages , other geftures , and stuffe otherwise wrought then what we now fit ...
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This is true Liberty when free born men Having to advife the public may speak free , Which be who can , and will , deferv's high praife , Who neither can nor will , may hold his peace ; What can be jufter in a State than this ?
This is true Liberty when free born men Having to advife the public may speak free , Which be who can , and will , deferv's high praife , Who neither can nor will , may hold his peace ; What can be jufter in a State than this ?
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But to talk of Liberty and Free Government , Publick Good and Rational Happinefs , as requiring limitations on the Prefs , and Licenfers of books , is as abfurd as to speak of liberty in a dungeon with chains on every limb .
But to talk of Liberty and Free Government , Publick Good and Rational Happinefs , as requiring limitations on the Prefs , and Licenfers of books , is as abfurd as to speak of liberty in a dungeon with chains on every limb .
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If it be defir'd to know the immediat cause of all this free writing and free speaking , there cannot be affign'd a truer than your own mild , and free , and human government ; it is the liberty , Lords and Commons , which your own ...
If it be defir'd to know the immediat cause of all this free writing and free speaking , there cannot be affign'd a truer than your own mild , and free , and human government ; it is the liberty , Lords and Commons , which your own ...
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica Issue 56 of British culture series, Group IV Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Publisher | Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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