Areopagitica ...A. Constable & Company, 1903 - 80 páginas |
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... Commons , Order of the Lords and Commons , AREOPAGITICA , • · 21 22N 233 ARGUMENT . Introduction , What books are ? • 1. The origin , inventors and object of Book licen- cing , · · 2. What is to be thought in general of reading books ...
... Commons , Order of the Lords and Commons , AREOPAGITICA , • · 21 22N 233 ARGUMENT . Introduction , What books are ? • 1. The origin , inventors and object of Book licen- cing , · · 2. What is to be thought in general of reading books ...
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... Commons affembled in Par- liament For regulating Printing . IT T is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament , That the Committee for Examinations , or any foure of them , have power ... LORDS and COMMONS Affembled in Parliament.
... Commons affembled in Par- liament For regulating Printing . IT T is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament , That the Committee for Examinations , or any foure of them , have power ... LORDS and COMMONS Affembled in Parliament.
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... Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , that this Order shall be forthwith printed and published . J. Brown Cler . Parliamentorum : Hen . Elsing Cler . D. Com . LONDON , Printed for I. Wright in the Old - baily , June 16 , 1643 . W ...
... Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament , that this Order shall be forthwith printed and published . J. Brown Cler . Parliamentorum : Hen . Elsing Cler . D. Com . LONDON , Printed for I. Wright in the Old - baily , June 16 , 1643 . W ...
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... Lords and Commons in Parliament , That no Order or Declaration of both , or either House of Parliament shall be printed by any , but by order of one or both the faid Houses : Nor 27 other Book , Pamphlet , paper , nor part 26.
... Lords and Commons in Parliament , That no Order or Declaration of both , or either House of Parliament shall be printed by any , but by order of one or both the faid Houses : Nor 27 other Book , Pamphlet , paper , nor part 26.
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... Lords and Commons of England . Neither is it in Gods esteeme the diminu- tion of his glory , when honourable things are spoken of good men and worthy Magistrates ; which if I now firft Thould begin to doe , after so fair a progreffe of ...
... Lords and Commons of England . Neither is it in Gods esteeme the diminu- tion of his glory , when honourable things are spoken of good men and worthy Magistrates ; which if I now firft Thould begin to doe , after so fair a progreffe of ...
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Página 38 - 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 8 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 37 - 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.
Página 69 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Página 73 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Página 70 - They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth. To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a Church; not the forced and outward union of cold and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Página 61 - ... books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that hapless race of men whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
Página 69 - ... of truth. Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then...
Página 76 - ... left ye his vote, or rather now the last words of his dying charge, which I know will ever be of dear and...
Página 38 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are...