 a speech of Mr. John Milton, for the liberty of unlicensed printing. The danger of such 'unbounded liberty, and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of government, which human understanding seems, hitherto, unable to solve....  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 66by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...feeling. Bosweii's Life ofjohnsm, i. 394 . • • HE 1 published about the same time his ' Areopagitica, a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed...hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth : if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 626 pages
...they were distressed, with other Eoyalists. He published 3 about the same time his " Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed...unable to solve. If nothing may be published ' but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth ; if... | |
 | Michel Mathieu - 1891 - 554 pages
...their public conKERR,J., here read a passage from Doctor Johnson's Life of Milton, wherein he says, " The danger of such unbounded " liberty, and the danger of bounding it, have produce a pro" blem in the science of government, which human understan" ding seems hitherto unable... | |
 | 1891 - 478 pages
...unhappy. In 1644 Milton wrote his Tractate on Education, followed in the same year by Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, :he most celebrated perhaps and powerful of his prose writings. Upon the trial and execution of Charles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 pages
...when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his “Areopagitica, a / Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed...hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth; if... | |
 | Edmund Gosse, R. J. Lister - 1893 - 250 pages
...age 62, faces p. I. This is the original edition of " Bentley's Milton." MILTON, JOHN. Areopagitica A Speech of Mr. John Milton for The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England With an introduction by James Russell Lowell. New Tort The Grolier Club... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 pages
...had the effect, moreover, of stimulating him to write in 1644 his greatest pamphlet, " Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: to the Parliament of England." Macaulay speaks on page 84 of this great and beautiful work, which anticipates... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 pages
...had the effect, moreover, of stimulating him to write in 1644 his greatest pamphlet, " Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing : to the Parliament of England." Macaulay speaks on page 84 of this great and beautiful work, which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 174 pages
...luid the effect, moreover, of stimulating him to write in 1644 his greatest pamphlet, " Areopagitica : a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: to the Parliament of England." Macaulay speaks on page 84 of this great and beautiful work, which anticipates... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1895 - 374 pages
...seemly simplicity. This was an edition of three hundred and twenty-five copies of the " Areopagitica, a speech of Mr. John Milton, for the liberty of unlicensed printing." For this Lowell wrote an introduction, characteristically commingled of wisdom and of wit: it is now... | |
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