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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... Books out of circulation . His endea- vour to impart to the Puritans his own liberal and juster conviction of the impor- tant benefits to be extracted from the Drama was of course not listened to , or listened to with coldness and ...
... Books out of circulation . His endea- vour to impart to the Puritans his own liberal and juster conviction of the impor- tant benefits to be extracted from the Drama was of course not listened to , or listened to with coldness and ...
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... Books and conveniences to patch up 66 66 among them , were received with written " encomiums , which the Italian is ... Book on " the Reason " of Church Government urged against Prelaty . " с the office of an Athenian Rhetor , he was ...
... Books and conveniences to patch up 66 66 among them , were received with written " encomiums , which the Italian is ... Book on " the Reason " of Church Government urged against Prelaty . " с the office of an Athenian Rhetor , he was ...
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... Books at all , did ever use this way of Licensing . " 66 66 The darkness then prevalent , that is compa- ratively with the brighter days , and the wider spread of intellectual light which we en- joy , induced e 2 THE PRESENT EDITOR . li.
... Books at all , did ever use this way of Licensing . " 66 66 The darkness then prevalent , that is compa- ratively with the brighter days , and the wider spread of intellectual light which we en- joy , induced e 2 THE PRESENT EDITOR . li.
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... Books , is as absurd , as to speak of Liberty in a dungeon , with chains on every limb . Hobbes too was consistent with him- self , and advises those , who aim at absolute domi- nion , to destroy all the antient Greek and Latin Authours ...
... Books , is as absurd , as to speak of Liberty in a dungeon , with chains on every limb . Hobbes too was consistent with him- self , and advises those , who aim at absolute domi- nion , to destroy all the antient Greek and Latin Authours ...
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... Books are printed , and , now at least , it appears to be very obvious . At divine communication , should not have adverted to the sin- gle signs which we have taken from the Arabian Sçavans for the purposes of calculation . These ...
... Books are printed , and , now at least , it appears to be very obvious . At divine communication , should not have adverted to the sin- gle signs which we have taken from the Arabian Sçavans for the purposes of calculation . These ...
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antient AREOPAGITICA Areopagus argument Aristophanes Athens atque authority Authour autres Ben Jonson better bien Bishop Books c'est CALIFORNIA LIBRARY cause censure Church Cicero civil common Court Discourse divine doctrine 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 peut Plato Plautus Poems Poet Poetry praise Prelats Press printed qu'il qu'on quæ quod racter Reason Reformation Religion remark Roman Rome s'il sects sense Shakspeare Sir Walter Ralegh Smectymnuus Sophron Speech spirit things thought tion tout Tract Truth vérité verse Vertue vindication wherein word writing written καὶ
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Page 153 - Justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, 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 154 - 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 88 - 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 despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Page 65 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page vi - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility...
Page 173 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 122 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Page 5 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for...
Page 109 - 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 195 - This I know, that errors in a good government and in a bad are equally almost incident...