Areopagitica: 24 November> 1644. Preceded by Illustrative DocumentsE. Arber, 1869 - 80 páginas |
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... age and on fucceed- ing generations . This is an apprehension of the mind of a book . More than this . We may examine its flyle , its power and manner of expreffing that mind . The ringing collocation of its words , the harmonious ...
... age and on fucceed- ing generations . This is an apprehension of the mind of a book . More than this . We may examine its flyle , its power and manner of expreffing that mind . The ringing collocation of its words , the harmonious ...
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... ages -the foundations of that religious , civil , and domestic Liberty , which it is our happiness to enjoy . Of that great cycle , the ' Areopagitica ' occupies but a fubordinate part , Milton claffifying it under domestic liberty with ...
... ages -the foundations of that religious , civil , and domestic Liberty , which it is our happiness to enjoy . Of that great cycle , the ' Areopagitica ' occupies but a fubordinate part , Milton claffifying it under domestic liberty with ...
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... ages , to whofe polite wisdom and letters we ow that we are not yet Gothes and Jut landers , I could name him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parlament of Athens , that perfwades them to change the forme of ...
... ages , to whofe polite wisdom and letters we ow that we are not yet Gothes and Jut landers , I could name him who from his private house wrote that discourse to the Parlament of Athens , that perfwades them to change the forme of ...
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... age can reftore a life , whereof perhaps there is no great loffe ; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the loffe of a rejected truth , for the want of which whole Nations fare the worse . We fhould be wary therefore what per ...
... age can reftore a life , whereof perhaps there is no great loffe ; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the loffe of a rejected truth , for the want of which whole Nations fare the worse . We fhould be wary therefore what per ...
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... ages train'd up only to a military roughnes , refembling moft of the Lacedæmonian guife , knew of learning little ... age fell to the ftudy of that whereof before hee was fo fcrupulous . And yet at the fame time Nævius and Plautus the ...
... ages train'd up only to a military roughnes , refembling moft of the Lacedæmonian guife , knew of learning little ... age fell to the ftudy of that whereof before hee was fo fcrupulous . And yet at the fame time Nævius and Plautus the ...
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Areopagitica: (24 November) 1644 : Preceded by Illustrative Documents John Milton Visualização integral - 1868 |
Areopagitica: (24 November) 1644: Preceded by Illustrative Documents John Milton Visualização integral - 1868 |
Areopagitica, (24 November) 1644: Preceded by Illustrative Documents John Milton Visualização integral - 1903 |
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Página 45 - 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.
Página 73 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 69 - What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?
Página 35 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives, a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 74 - He who hears what praying there is for light and clearer knowledge to be sent down among us, would think of other matters to be constituted beyond the discipline of Geneva, framed and fabricked already to our hands.
Página 69 - Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism, we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst after knowledge and understanding, which God hath stirred up in this city.
Página 69 - We reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks ; had we but eyes to lift up, the fields are white already.
Página 72 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance...
Página 50 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
Página 67 - It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation: no; if other things as great in the church, and in the rule of life both...