... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...1869 - 80 sidor |
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... in hindering the fearch after new Truth , Description of the English nation , The power of Truth , • An appeal for toleration , spiritual unity and peace , NOTES , • • • 88138 66 68 74 75 80 INTRODUCTION . HAT half - living thing - a book.
... in hindering the fearch after new Truth , Description of the English nation , The power of Truth , • An appeal for toleration , spiritual unity and peace , NOTES , • • • 88138 66 68 74 75 80 INTRODUCTION . HAT half - living thing - a book.
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... power of its author . Its contents may be analysed as to their intrinfic truthfulness or falfity . We may trace and identify its influence upon its own age and on fucceed- ing generations . This is an apprehenfion of the mind . of a ...
... power of its author . Its contents may be analysed as to their intrinfic truthfulness or falfity . We may trace and identify its influence upon its own age and on fucceed- ing generations . This is an apprehenfion of the mind . of a ...
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... power of the English mind , the diligent study of the national Literature and Language can hardly fail both to spread and to deepen . The number of fuch learners tends therefore to multiply , until it fhall be reputed a disgrace to be ...
... power of the English mind , the diligent study of the national Literature and Language can hardly fail both to spread and to deepen . The number of fuch learners tends therefore to multiply , until it fhall be reputed a disgrace to be ...
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... power ceafeleffly exercised by the low - bred intellect in questioning and adjusting his prerogative , in destroying his would - be almightinefs in the mind of the people , in bringing him under Law . The ministers of the religions then ...
... power ceafeleffly exercised by the low - bred intellect in questioning and adjusting his prerogative , in destroying his would - be almightinefs in the mind of the people , in bringing him under Law . The ministers of the religions then ...
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... power . " * • · · As we learn from his Second Defence - written ten years after the prefent work - the fingularly conceptive mind of Milton had grouped into one cycle fubjects of no apparent immediate connection . Epifcopacy , Divorce ...
... power . " * • · · As we learn from his Second Defence - written ten years after the prefent work - the fingularly conceptive mind of Milton had grouped into one cycle fubjects of no apparent immediate connection . Epifcopacy , Divorce ...
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Æneid againſt alſo Angels anſwer Author BAYES beautiful becauſe befides beſt Biſhops Book buſineſs call'd cauſe Chriftian Church Circumftance Clergy Court Criticks deſcribed Deſcription diſcover Dryden Duke of Buckingham edition elſe England English faid fame felf felves feveral fhall fhew fince firft firſt fome fomething ftill fuch fure give greateſt hath Heaven himſelf Homer Honour Houſe Iliad John Selden JOHNS juſt King laſt leaſt licencing London Lord Love Maſter meaſure Milton moft moſt muſt Nature never obferve otherwiſe Paffage Parliament perfons Play pleaſe Poem Poet pray prefent Prince printed puniſhment purpoſe queſtion raiſe Reader reaſon Rehearsal Religion repreſented ſay ſee Selden ſelf ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeak ſtill ſuch tell thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought truth Tyrannick Love underſtand uſe Villiers whofe whole William Davenant writ write
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Sida 35 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Sida 45 - 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.
Sida 10 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Sida 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?
Sida 12 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Sida 113 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Sida 71 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Sida 67 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Sida 54 - ... legible, whereof three pages would not down at any time in the fairest print, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time, and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure.
Sida 56 - ... writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book ? The printer dares not go beyond his...