Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of Unlicensed PrintingR. Hunter, successor to Mr. Johnson ... and Richard Steevens, 1819 - 311 páginas |
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... cause forgotten or forgiven by those who held contrary opinions . This hostility to his memory continued virulent beyond the common measure of political virulence . So late as the middle of the last century , if we may place implicit ...
... cause forgotten or forgiven by those who held contrary opinions . This hostility to his memory continued virulent beyond the common measure of political virulence . So late as the middle of the last century , if we may place implicit ...
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... Cause which he maintained ; but in reality it is matter for regret rather than for surprise , that such scurrilous upbraidings , such envenomed maledictions , should have chafed him , and that he at times talked the imbittered lan ...
... Cause which he maintained ; but in reality it is matter for regret rather than for surprise , that such scurrilous upbraidings , such envenomed maledictions , should have chafed him , and that he at times talked the imbittered lan ...
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... writing in a clas- sical tongue . He there yields the place to the primitive Fathers of Rhetoric ; but challenges a high precedency over their sub- jects of Discussion for the cause of the Par- liament XXXviii PREFATORY REMARKS BY.
... writing in a clas- sical tongue . He there yields the place to the primitive Fathers of Rhetoric ; but challenges a high precedency over their sub- jects of Discussion for the cause of the Par- liament XXXviii PREFATORY REMARKS BY.
Página xxxix
... cause of the Par- liament . Let him speak for himself in his own lofty tone * . " Devoted from an early age to " the study of polite Learning , and conscious " that I was always less remarkable for strength " of Constitution than for ...
... cause of the Par- liament . Let him speak for himself in his own lofty tone * . " Devoted from an early age to " the study of polite Learning , and conscious " that I was always less remarkable for strength " of Constitution than for ...
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... Cause in itself " the most noble , as well as universal in its " interest ; and at the same time that I have " been called by the voice and judgment of " the People to the highly honourable task " of defending those who have vindicated ...
... Cause in itself " the most noble , as well as universal in its " interest ; and at the same time that I have " been called by the voice and judgment of " the People to the highly honourable task " of defending those who have vindicated ...
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antient AREOPAGITICA Areopagus argument Aristophanes Athens atque authority Authour autres Ben Jonson better bien Bishop Books c'est CALIFORNIA LIBRARY cause censure Church Cicero civil common Court Discourse divine doctrine edit Eloquence England English Epicurus être Euripides Evill faut favour Freedom Government Greece Greek hath Hist hommes honour Imprimatur Isocrates jamais Johnson Knowlege l'on la presse labour language Latin Laws Learning Libel Liberty Licencing livres Lord Lost MASERES means ment mihi MILTON mind Ministers n'est Nation never opinion Oration Pamphlet Paradise Lost Parliament Parliament of England passage peut Plato Plautus Poems Poet Poetry praise Prelats Press printed qu'il qu'on quæ quod racter Reason Reformation Religion remark Roman Rome s'il sects sense Shakspeare Sir Walter Ralegh Smectymnuus Sophron Speech spirit things thought tion tout Tract Truth vérité verse Vertue vindication wherein word writing written καὶ
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Página 153 - Justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching Reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Página 154 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Página 88 - Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will and reason, reason also is choice, Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Página 65 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Página vi - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility...
Página 173 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 122 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Página 5 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for...
Página 109 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 195 - This I know, that errors in a good government and in a bad are equally almost incident...