... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...1869 - 80 sidor |
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... themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine , imprison , and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : For Books are not abfolutely dead things , but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that foule was ...
... themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine , imprison , and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : For Books are not abfolutely dead things , but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that foule was ...
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... themselves were forbid to read the Books of Gentiles , but Herefies they might read : while others long before them on the contrary fcrupl'd more the Books of Hereticks , then of Gentiles . And that the primitive Councels and Bishops ...
... themselves were forbid to read the Books of Gentiles , but Herefies they might read : while others long before them on the contrary fcrupl'd more the Books of Hereticks , then of Gentiles . And that the primitive Councels and Bishops ...
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... themselves be confided in , unleffe we can conferr upon them , or they affume to themselves above all others in the Land , the grace of infallibility , and un- corruptedneffe ? And again if it be true , that a wife man like a good ...
... themselves be confided in , unleffe we can conferr upon them , or they affume to themselves above all others in the Land , the grace of infallibility , and un- corruptedneffe ? And again if it be true , that a wife man like a good ...
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... themselves weli ridd of it , and that no man of worth , none that is not a plain unthrift of his own hours is ever likely to fucceed them , except he mean to put himself to the falary of a Preffe - corrector , we may eafily foresee what ...
... themselves weli ridd of it , and that no man of worth , none that is not a plain unthrift of his own hours is ever likely to fucceed them , except he mean to put himself to the falary of a Preffe - corrector , we may eafily foresee what ...
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... by this cours of licencing towards the true knowledge of what we seem to know . For how much it hurts and hinders the licencers themselves in the calling of their Min- E iftery , more then any fecular employment , if they AREOPAGITICA . 65.
... by this cours of licencing towards the true knowledge of what we seem to know . For how much it hurts and hinders the licencers themselves in the calling of their Min- E iftery , more then any fecular employment , if they AREOPAGITICA . 65.
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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...