 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...at fIarrard," 1R26. THE DEMEANOR OF BOORS. JOHN MILTON. IT is of greatest concernment in the chureh and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books...books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...Studinm, quid inutile tenlas ? Mseonides nullas ipse reliquit opes." THE DEMEANOE OF BOOKS. JOHN MH.T05. IT is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth,...and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for hooks are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1987 - 192 pages
...altogether. His argument is for the removal of prepublication censorship: he concedes the inevitable: I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the...Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - 1994 - 900 pages
...after publication to material which was seditious or blasphemous. He said, for example, that he denied not "but that it is of greatest concernment in the...confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors."8 And drawing on his classical scholarship to illustrate his ideas, he observed that in... | |
 | Nicholas Hudson - 1994 - 250 pages
...printing, Areopagitica (1644), which alludes to the legend of Cadmus. 'I deny not', acknowledged Milton, 'but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men ... I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive,... | |
 | 1988 - 140 pages
...also insist on the following: "I mean not tolerated Popery, and open superstition ...." (II, 565), and "....it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilent eye how Bookes demeane themselves; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pages
...that way. The detour initially responds to the objection that Milton opposes all censorship: "I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the...have a vigilant eye how Books demean themselves." From this response sprouts a discussion of books and mortality. There are three parts in syllogistic... | |
 | Lana Cable - 1995 - 252 pages
...restored, and finally shed, by the fluid thought to which it can give only momentary shape: I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the...Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 pages
...beginning of the second paragraph, "it is of the greatest concernment in the church and com monwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine. . .and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors" (lines 12-15). He is not (A) ".. .against it in... | |
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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... 
