Areopagitica ...A. Constable & Company, 1903 - 80 páginas |
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... himself at last in his old age fell to the ftudy of that whereof before hee was fo fcrupulous . And yet at the fame time Nævius and Plautus the first Latine come- dians had fill'd the City with all the borrow'd Scenes of Menander and ...
... himself at last in his old age fell to the ftudy of that whereof before hee was fo fcrupulous . And yet at the fame time Nævius and Plautus the first Latine come- dians had fill'd the City with all the borrow'd Scenes of Menander and ...
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... himself much against hereticks by being converfant in their Books ; untill a certain Presbyter laid it scrupulously to his confcience , how he durst venture himselfe among those defiling volumes . The worthy man loath to give offence ...
... himself much against hereticks by being converfant in their Books ; untill a certain Presbyter laid it scrupulously to his confcience , how he durst venture himselfe among those defiling volumes . The worthy man loath to give offence ...
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... himself tabl'd the Jews from heaven , that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna , is computed to have bin more then might have well fuffic'd the heartieft feeder thrice as many meals . For those actions which enter into a ...
... himself tabl'd the Jews from heaven , that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna , is computed to have bin more then might have well fuffic'd the heartieft feeder thrice as many meals . For those actions which enter into a ...
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... d , and to no other , is evident . Why was he not elfe a Law - giver to himself , but a tranfgreffor , and to be expell'd by his own Magiftrats D both for the wanton epigrams and dialogues which he made AREOPAGITICA . 49.
... d , and to no other , is evident . Why was he not elfe a Law - giver to himself , but a tranfgreffor , and to be expell'd by his own Magiftrats D both for the wanton epigrams and dialogues which he made AREOPAGITICA . 49.
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... himself , nor any Magiftrat , or City ever imitated that cours , which tak'n apart from those other collaterall injunctions muft needs be vain and fruitleffe . For if they fell upon one kind of strictnesse , unleffe their care were ...
... himself , nor any Magiftrat , or City ever imitated that cours , which tak'n apart from those other collaterall injunctions muft needs be vain and fruitleffe . For if they fell upon one kind of strictnesse , unleffe their care were ...
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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...