Areopagitica: 24 November> 1644. Preceded by Illustrative DocumentsA. Murray & son, 1869 - 80 páginas |
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... perhaps each of these difpofitions , as the fub- ject was whereon I enter'd , may have at other times variously affected ; and likely might in these foremost expreffions now also disclose which of them fway'd most , but that the very ...
... perhaps each of these difpofitions , as the fub- ject was whereon I enter'd , may have at other times variously affected ; and likely might in these foremost expreffions now also disclose which of them fway'd most , but that the very ...
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... 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- fecution we raise against the ...
... 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- fecution we raise against the ...
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... of Warre . There needed no licencing of Books among them for they diflik'd all , but their owne Laconick Apo- thegms , and took a flight occafion to chafe Archilochus out of their City , perhaps for composing in a 36 AREOPAGITICA .
... of Warre . There needed no licencing of Books among them for they diflik'd all , but their owne Laconick Apo- thegms , and took a flight occafion to chafe Archilochus out of their City , perhaps for composing in a 36 AREOPAGITICA .
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... perhaps for composing in a higher ftraine then their owne souldierly ballats and roundels could reach to : Or if it were for his broad verses , they were not therein fo cautious , but they were as diffolute in their promifcuous ...
... perhaps for composing in a higher ftraine then their owne souldierly ballats and roundels could reach to : Or if it were for his broad verses , they were not therein fo cautious , but they were as diffolute in their promifcuous ...
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... perhaps , as they thought , be- caufe no vulgar tongue was worthy to expreffe the pure conceit of an Imprimatur ; but rather , as I hope , for that our English , the language of men ever famous , and formoft in the achievements of ...
... perhaps , as they thought , be- caufe no vulgar tongue was worthy to expreffe the pure conceit of an Imprimatur ; but rather , as I hope , for that our English , the language of men ever famous , and formoft in the achievements of ...
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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...