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" 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. "
Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ... - Page 154
by John Milton - 1819 - 311 pages
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Hellenistic History and Culture

Peter Green - 1993 - 316 pages
...Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik Introduction: New Approaches to the Hellenistic World Peter Green Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity...opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. MILTON, AREOPAGITICA (1664) Historians are . . . carried along by the general cultural movements of...
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Reading Between the Lines

Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 1993 - 358 pages
...to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge" (2:550). "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity...opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making" (2:554). Couples, Canons, and the Uncouth. Spenser-and-Milton Coupling Among the processes of canon...
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Polite Wisdom: Heathen Rhetoric in Milton's Areopagitica

Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pages
...of all this free writing and free speaking," earlier he said God caused this writing and speaking: "Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism,...thirst after knowledge and understanding which God hath stirred up in this City" (II, 554; emphasis added). These passages, however, need not be contradictory....
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Literature and Culture in Early Modern London

Lawrence Manley - 1995 - 638 pages
...presage of our happy successe and victory. (p. 557) In celebrating "the earnest and zealous search after knowledge and understanding which God hath stirr'd up in this City" (p. 554), Milton shares with Thomas Goodwin the view that " this city (for aught I know) hath been...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...follow the wise advice of its own member, the late Lord Brooke, on toleration. It will real1ze that 'where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity...opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.' It will grant, moreover, to the good men of England, eager to assist in the great work ahead, 'the...
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The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650 ...

Richard D. Brown - 1996 - 280 pages
...of prophets, of sages, and of worthies." Let there be conflict, he said in the midst of civil war: "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity...opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making."33 He was certain that most Englishmen, even common ones, were good. To be sure, Milton's argument...
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Earn College Credit for what You Know

Lois S. Lamdin - 1997 - 256 pages
...for career planning. PTE 4 Choosing the Right School A Consumer's Guide to Postsecondary Education Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity...opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton By now you've thought about why you want to go to school and what you want to study, you've...
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Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind

Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 304 pages
...keep all notions of truth contingent, perspectival." Or, as Milton himself claimed in Areopagitica, "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity...opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making" (743). According to Wittreich, "Criticism of the highest order unfetters— it does not constrain—the...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...who shall silence all the airs and madrigals, that whisper softness in chambers? 7463 Areopagitica er pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovere opinlons; for opinlon in good men is but knowledge in the making. 7464 Areopagitica Methinks I see...
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Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade

Stephen B. Dobranski - 1999 - 276 pages
...be inform'd in what he writes, as well as any that writ before him" (C4r/532). To arrive at truth, "there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing,...opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making" (E1r/554). More specifically, according to Milton's narrative of Areopagitica's origin, his "speech"...
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