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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England for the Liberty of ... - Page 74
by John Milton - 1905 - 100 pages
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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...the truth, unless ye first 15 make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders, of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish,...and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed 20 us. That our hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts more erected to the search and expectation...
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The World's Famous Orations, Volume 3

William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 292 pages
...of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish,...us ; but you then must first become that which ye can not be, oppressive, arbitrary and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us. That our...
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The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts, Volume 12

Clyde Augustus Duniway - 1906 - 232 pages
..."floury crop of knowledge " would be inconsistent with " mild, free and human government," and would be "oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us." Rising to a prophetic expression of an unrealized ideal, he exclaimed, " Give me the liberty to know,...
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Seventeenth Century Prose

Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 pages
...of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish,...capacious, our thoughts more erected to the search and 10 expectation of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us ;...
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The Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography, Volume 1

Thomas Paine, Thomas Clio Rickman - 1908 - 476 pages
...the truth, unless ye first 154 make yourselves that made us so less the lovers, less the founders, of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish,...That our hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts now more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of your...
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Free Press Anthology

1909 - 284 pages
...of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish,...tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us. ... Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all [other]...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 360 pages
...again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but ye then must first become that which ye can not be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they...thoughts more erected to the search and expectation of great and exact things, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us; ye can not suppress that...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 pages
...formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but ye then must first become that which ye canjiot_be,_OD2ressiye i arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye...thoughts more erected to the search and expectation of great and exact things, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us; ye can not suppress that...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 374 pages
...of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but ye then must first become that which ye can not be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of otjr true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but ye then must first become that which ye can not be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannpqs, as they were...
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