... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...1869 - 80 pages |
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... shall be first lawfully licenced and authorized onely by fuch person and persons as are hereafter expressed , and by no other , and shall be also first entred into the Registers Booke of the Company of Stationers ; vpon paine that euery ...
... shall be first lawfully licenced and authorized onely by fuch person and persons as are hereafter expressed , and by no other , and shall be also first entred into the Registers Booke of the Company of Stationers ; vpon paine that euery ...
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... shall haue two feuerall written Copies of the fame Booke or Bookes with the Titles , Epiftles , Prefaces , Proems , Preambles , Intro- ductions , Tables , Dedications , and other things what- foeuer thereunto annexed . One of which faid ...
... shall haue two feuerall written Copies of the fame Booke or Bookes with the Titles , Epiftles , Prefaces , Proems , Preambles , Intro- ductions , Tables , Dedications , and other things what- foeuer thereunto annexed . One of which faid ...
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... shall require , fhall be thought fitting . VI . Item , That no Merchant , or other perfon or perfons whatfoeuer , which fhall import or bring any book or books into the kingdome , from any parts beyond the Seas , fhall presume to open ...
... shall require , fhall be thought fitting . VI . Item , That no Merchant , or other perfon or perfons whatfoeuer , which fhall import or bring any book or books into the kingdome , from any parts beyond the Seas , fhall presume to open ...
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... shall hereafter Print , or caufe to be Printed , any Bookes , Ballads , Charts , Portraiture , or any other thing or things whatsoeuer , fhall thereunto or thereon Print and fet his and their owne name or names , as also the name or ...
... shall hereafter Print , or caufe to be Printed , any Bookes , Ballads , Charts , Portraiture , or any other thing or things whatsoeuer , fhall thereunto or thereon Print and fet his and their owne name or names , as also the name or ...
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... shall also haue , and fuffer fuch punishment , by imprisonment of his body , fine , or otherwise , as by this Honourable Court , or high Commission Court refpectiuely , as the feuerall caufes fhall require , it shall be to him or them ...
... shall also haue , and fuffer fuch punishment , by imprisonment of his body , fine , or otherwise , as by this Honourable Court , or high Commission Court refpectiuely , as the feuerall caufes fhall require , it shall be to him or them ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 10 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 71 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 56 - ... writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book ? The printer dares not go beyond his...