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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... facts of the same ten- dency are at hand . In the Tract which gives occasion to these notices , it again appears how far he was before those persons with whom he is here injuriously ranked . He there states xii PREFATORY REMARKS BY.
... facts of the same ten- dency are at hand . In the Tract which gives occasion to these notices , it again appears how far he was before those persons with whom he is here injuriously ranked . He there states xii PREFATORY REMARKS BY.
Page xvii
... give some proof of his Wit and " and Reading there ) met with acceptance " above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of " Books and conveniences to patch up 66 66 among them , were received with ...
... give some proof of his Wit and " and Reading there ) met with acceptance " above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of " Books and conveniences to patch up 66 66 among them , were received with ...
Page xxx
... give it a high value in the estimation of one through whose breast the ardours of Liberty glowed with no common fervency . It bears so strongly on the present subject , that it would be a culpable omission to pass over XXX PREFATORY ...
... give it a high value in the estimation of one through whose breast the ardours of Liberty glowed with no common fervency . It bears so strongly on the present subject , that it would be a culpable omission to pass over XXX PREFATORY ...
Page xxxviii
... give way , he gives way only because he was the junior to Shakspeare by birth . The justification of the People of England was to MILTON a spirit - stirring theme ; while with the diffusive means of mental inter- course afforded by the ...
... give way , he gives way only because he was the junior to Shakspeare by birth . The justification of the People of England was to MILTON a spirit - stirring theme ; while with the diffusive means of mental inter- course afforded by the ...
Page lxii
... give a deep and live- ly interest to every disquisition to which he applied himself . So that it is inexcusa- ble in an English Gentleman , who feels it to be due to his station to attain a competent proficiency in the History and in ...
... give a deep and live- ly interest to every disquisition to which he applied himself . So that it is inexcusa- ble in an English Gentleman , who feels it to be due to his station to attain a competent proficiency in the History and in ...
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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...