Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England for the Liberty of Unlicensed PrintingRalph Holland & Company, 1905 - 100 pages |
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... the Parliament of England for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing John Milton. Herm . Here on shows what has been clone down bocks through history and writi writing on restrictions of catched up by our Prelates , and hath caught some.
... the Parliament of England for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing John Milton. Herm . Here on shows what has been clone down bocks through history and writi writing on restrictions of catched up by our Prelates , and hath caught some.
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... hath caught some of our Presbyters . In Athens , where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece , I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of ; those either 170 blasphemous ...
... hath caught some of our Presbyters . In Athens , where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece , I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of ; those either 170 blasphemous ...
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... hath been ever seduced by papistical book in English , unless it were commended and expounded to him by some of that clergy : and indeed all 570 such tractates , whether false or true , are as the prophecy of Isaiah was to the eunuch ...
... hath been ever seduced by papistical book in English , unless it were commended and expounded to him by some of that clergy : and indeed all 570 such tractates , whether false or true , are as the prophecy of Isaiah was to the eunuch ...
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... hath almost prevented me by being clear already while thus much hath been explaining . See the ingenuity of Truth , who , when she gets a free and willing hand , opens herself faster than the pace of method and discourse can overtake ...
... hath almost prevented me by being clear already while thus much hath been explaining . See the ingenuity of Truth , who , when she gets a free and willing hand , opens herself faster than the pace of method and discourse can overtake ...
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... hath placed us unavoidably Nor is it Plato's licensing of books will do this , which necessarily pulls along with it so many other kinds of licensing , as will make us all both ridiculous and weary , and yet frustrate ; but those ...
... hath placed us unavoidably Nor is it Plato's licensing of books will do this , which necessarily pulls along with it so many other kinds of licensing , as will make us all both ridiculous and weary , and yet frustrate ; but those ...
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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.