Areopagitica: 24 November 1644A. Murray & son, 1868 - 80 pages |
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... should undermine the foundations of civil fociety and ecclefiaftical polity , and fo reduce the world to chaotic confusion . Thus fome from conscientious duty , others with a wicked fatisfaction , all unitedly or in turn , joined in ...
... should undermine the foundations of civil fociety and ecclefiaftical polity , and fo reduce the world to chaotic confusion . Thus fome from conscientious duty , others with a wicked fatisfaction , all unitedly or in turn , joined in ...
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... should begin to doe , after so fair a progreffe of your laudable deeds , and fuch a long obligement upon the whole ... should affirme and hold by argument , that it would fare better with truth , with learning , and the Commonwealth , if ...
... should begin to doe , after so fair a progreffe of your laudable deeds , and fuch a long obligement upon the whole ... should affirme and hold by argument , that it would fare better with truth , with learning , and the Commonwealth , if ...
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... should thus farre prefume upon the meek demeanour of your civill and gentle greatneffe , Lords and Commons , as what your publifht Order hath directly faid , that to gainfay , I might defend my felfe with ease , any should accuse me of ...
... should thus farre prefume upon the meek demeanour of your civill and gentle greatneffe , Lords and Commons , as what your publifht Order hath directly faid , that to gainfay , I might defend my felfe with ease , any should accuse me of ...
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... should withhold me from presenting ye with a fit inftance wherein to fhew both that love of truth which ye eminently profeffe , and that uprightneffe of your judgement which is not wont to be partiall to your felves ; by judging over ...
... should withhold me from presenting ye with a fit inftance wherein to fhew both that love of truth which ye eminently profeffe , and that uprightneffe of your judgement which is not wont to be partiall to your felves ; by judging over ...
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... should be wary therefore what per- secution we raise against the living labours of publick men , how we spill that season'd life of man preferv'd and flor'd up in Books ; fince we see a kinde of homicide may be thus committed ...
... should be wary therefore what per- secution we raise against the living labours of publick men , how we spill that season'd life of man preferv'd and flor'd up in Books ; fince we see a kinde of homicide may be thus committed ...
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Page 34 - 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.
Page 74 - ... and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please, only that he may try the matter by dint of argument...
Page 73 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 35 - 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.
Page 49 - Plato, a man of high authority indeed, but least of all for his Commonwealth, in the book of his laws...
Page 70 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Page 67 - It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation: no; if other things as great in the church, and in the rule of life both...
Page 67 - 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.
Page 45 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Page 35 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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.